Pan-Slavism

[ pan-slah-viz-uhm, -slav-iz- ]

noun

1. the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.

Pan-Slavism

noun

1. (esp in the 19th century) the movement for the union of the Slavic peoples, esp under the hegemony of tsarist Russia

Derived Forms

• ˈPan-ˈSlavic, adjective

Other Words From

• Pan-Slav Pan-Slavic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pan-Slavism¹

First recorded in 1840–50; pan- + Slavism

Example Sentences

Pan-Slavism, which was dominating the Russian policy to an ever greater degree, had positive anti-German tendencies.

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Pan-Slavism or Pan-Germanism, based upon a racial bond, would be a far more significant political idea.

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It was made to elect between pan-Slavism and pan-capitalism.

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And he was as strongly repelled by Dostoevsky's shrieking Pan-Slavism as by his sensationalism among horrors.

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