Pan-Slavism :: European Europe History

Pan-SlavismIn the early nineteenth century, Slavic peoples from multiple empires in eastern and southern Europe began to pursue a movement to foster and organize Slavic culture. In 1848, this movement became more political. It gained a record and an attempt was made to unify solely Slavic peoples. This movement became know as Pan-Slavism. Pan-Slavism appealed to some(prenominal) Slavs who felt nationalism towards their race. However among the Slavs, there were numerous different opinions. Some believed that there was a heathen, ethnic, and political liaison among all Slavs. Others argued that there was no place for Pan-Slavic goals in the present empires. Above all, the cultural and political issues in the debate over Pan-Slavism were nationalism for ones race and a quest for power. In 1871 Slavs occupied most of eastern and southern Europe. The Slavs came from many nations. They populated the Austro-Hungarian, German, Russian, and the Balkan Areas of the ottoman Empires. Ho wever as a result of their geographical diversity, there was no single language or literature for the Slavic population. Slavs were so disunited that although they shared a common nationality, there was ignorance, hatred, and subjugation of each opposite. Slavic nationalists wanted to unify and form a superfluous and content Pan-Slavic Empire. They believed that all Slavic peoples should maintain a close connection to one another. They were unhappy that among the Slavs, nationality came after humanity, while the opposite of this was true for other nations. In a lecture given by Bronislaw Trentowski in 1848, he stated that if he were ever a tsar, he would destroy the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, thus liberating the Slavic peoples and hence gaining their support. He would free Poland, along with every other Slav occupied country. Some people apothegm Pan-Slavism as the freeing of non-Russian Slavs from their Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian rulers. Not everyone agreed with t he intentions of Pan-Slavism. Some people did not think that that the Slavs were one nation. Karel Havlicek, a Czechoslovakian journalist shared this belief. He believed that nationality was not only determined by language, but also by customs, religion, government, and way of education. In 1848, he published an article called Slav and Czech, in which he stated that the name Slav is and should always go along a geographical name. Bulgarian poet, Christo Boter, who strongly believed that only small federations of Slavs, in accordance to location should be built, shared a similar as yet different view.