Pan-Slavism and Slavophilia in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Origins, Manifestations and Functions

ISBN-13: 9783031178740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 462 str.

Mikhail Suslov; Marek Čejka; Vladimir Ðorđevic

Opis

This book explores origins, manifestations, and functions of Pan-Slavism in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, arguing that despite the extinction of Pan-Slavism as an articulated Romantic-era geopolitical ideology, a number of related discourses, metaphors, and emotions have spilled over into the mainstream debates and popular imagination. Using the term Slavophilia to capture the range of representations, the volume analyses how geopolitical discourses shape the identity and policies of a community, providing a comparative analysis that covers a range of Slavic countries in order to understand how Pan-Slavism works and resonates across geographic and political contexts.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction - Examining Pan-Slavism: Conceptual Approach, Methodological Framework, and State of the Art.- Chaper 2. Structure of the Volume.- Section I: Pan-Slavism as History.- Chapter 3. Russian Pan-Slavism: A Historical Perspective.- Chaper 4. A Short History of Pan-Slavism and its Impact on Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- Chapter 5. Pan-Slavism in the Balkans: A Historical View.- Section II: Pan-Slavism as a (Political) Tool.- Chapter 6. New Wine in an Old Wineskin: Slavophilia and Geopolitical Populism in Putin’s Russia.- Chapter 7. Ideational Travels of Slavophilia in Belarus: From Tsars to Lukashenka.- Chapter 8. On Pan-Slavism, Brotherhood, and Mythology: The Imagery of Contemporary Geopolitical Discourse in Serbia.- Chapter 9. Intermarium or Hyperborea? Pan-Slavism in Poland after 1989.- Section III: On Pan-Slavism, Identity, and Other Issues.- Chapter 10. A Distant Acquaintance: Reflecting on Croatia’s Relationship with Pan-Slavism.- Chapter 11. On Pan-Slavism(s) and Macedonian National Identity.- Chapter 12. Invented ‘Europeanness’ versus Residual Slavophilism: Ukraine as an Ideological Battlefield.- Section IV: On Pan-Slavism, East vs. West Divide, and Orthodoxy.- Chapter 13. Bulgaria’s Backlash against the Istanbul Convention: Slavophilia as the Historical Frame of Pseudo-Religious Illiberalism.- Chapter 14. Montenegrin Squaring of the Circle: Between Russophilia, Pan-Orthodoxia, and Competing Nationalism.- Chapter 15. Pan-Slavism and Slavophilia in the Czech Republic within the Context of Hybrid Threats.- Chapter 16. Slovakia: Emergence of an Old-New Pseudo-Pan-Slavism in the Context of the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine after 2014.- Section V: An Ethnographic Look on Pan-Slavism.- Chapter 17. Manifestations of Pan-Slavic Sentiments among South Slavic Diaspora Communities in the United States of America.- Chapter 18. Interethnic Ritual Kinship as Pan-Slavism in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 

Afterword

O autorze

​Mikhail Suslov is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a former researcher at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden. He specialises in and teaches Russian (intellectual) history, political ideology, geopolitics, Russian Orthodox Church, contemporary Russian politics and society, and history of Eastern and Southern Europe.

Marek Čejka is Associate Professor in the Department of Territorial Studies at the Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, a former assistant at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, and a former researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Czech Republic. He specialises in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Middle East and Maghreb regions, the relationship between religion and politics, ideologies in the Middle East including Arab nationalism, (radical) Islamism, and Christian fundamentalism.

Đorđević Vladimir is Assistant Professor in the Department of Territorial Studies at the Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. He specialises in the Western Balkans, Europeanisation, democratisation, nationalism, and security-related agendas of the said region.

Blurb

This collection is an important contribution in both the historical and contemporary analysis of Pan-Slavism. It places this concept in context of Yugoslavism, as well as Russian appeals to Slavic and Orthodox solidarity and competing European identity. This book will become a standard study on the topic through its comprehensive and systematic approach, covering most Slavic countries and not treating Pan-Slavism as just a type of failed meta nationalism, but as an important idea informing the Slavic world today.

-          Florian Bieber, Professor of Southeast European History and Politics, University of Graz, Austria

The heyday of Pan-Slavism may be long gone, but the idea of the brotherhood of Slavs continues to inspire a range of cultural, civilisational and geopolitical imaginations in Europe. This book is a veritable treasure trove for anyone interested in the curious evolution of this understudied phenomenon and its contemporary ramifications.

-          Filip Ejdus, Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia

This book explores origins, manifestations, and functions of Pan-Slavism in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, arguing that despite the extinction of Pan-Slavism as an articulated Romantic-era geopolitical ideology, a number of related discourses, metaphors, and emotions have spilled over into the mainstream debates and popular imagination. Using the term Slavophilia to capture the range of representations, the volume analyses how geopolitical discourses shape the identity and policies of a community, providing a comparative analysis that covers a range of Slavic countries in order to understand how Pan-Slavism works and resonates across geographic and political contexts.

​Mikhail Suslov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Marek Čejka is Associate Professor in the Department of Territorial Studies at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.

Đorđević Vladimir is Assistant Professor in the Department of Territorial Studies at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.