Pan-Slavism

American  

[pan-slah-viz-uhm, -slav-iz-] / ˌpænˈslɑ vɪz əm, -ˈslæv ɪz- /

noun

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

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Pan-Slavism British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• Pan-Slav adjective
• Pan-Slavic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Pan-Slavism

First recorded in 1840–50; pan- + Slavism

Example Sentences

The second was fear of Pan-Slavism, which was rooted in many Europeans, especially Germans and Scandinavians, long before Karl Marx was born.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was she so eager an advocate of Pan-Slavism as such a fact would indicate?

From A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict by Marshall, Logan

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

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

Pan-Slavism had long since ceased to be the force it was, and nobody in Russia dreamed of or desired the incorporation of any Balkan territory in the Russian Empire.

From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Forbes, Nevill

Already before the war the Czechs were pioneers of Slav solidarity and reciprocity, wrongly called Pan-Slavism.

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Nosek, Vladimír