Cover Osteuropa 12/2009

In Osteuropa 12/2009

“Soviet Rus’” and Its Brothers
The Slavic Idea in Russia’s Long 20th Century

Jan C. Behrends


Deutsche Fassung

Abstract

In the 20th century, the Slavic idea appeared in three variations: as Neo-Slavism in the late tsarist empire, as Pan-Slavic rhetoric in high Stalinism, and as splinter in the post-Soviet search for Russian identity. In each case, prop-agandists invoked the Pan-Slavism of the Tsarist empire. That shows the power of 19th-century national myths.

(Osteuropa 12/2009, pp. 95–114)