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

Even in Russia, then its bitter enemy, this principle quickened the ardour of Pan-Slavism, which the war of 1878—the Schipka Pass, Plevna, the dazzling heroism of Skobeleff—has made memorable.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)

Three Russian ethnographical maps on Macedonia were issued by the Petrograd Slavyansko Obštčestvo, which worked for Pan-Slavism and assisted Slav students.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Baerlein, Henry

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 of the military sort, with musketry, bribery and all other diabolic black arts, miscalled government, rests on such a slim foundation that it need be but little apprehended.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous