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The Impact of Pan-Slavism on Central Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Hans Kohn
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Pan-slavism is one of the elusive idea-concepts which can be easily defined. But the historian can hardly say how far they correspond to a political reality which exercises a decisive impact on the course of history. A similar contemporary ideaconcept is Pan-Africanism, propagated and commended by most Africans. So far it has failed to create a political or economic union. The only example of that kind, and that on a very minor scale, the Mali Federation, dissolved after a short existence. The same holds true of another similar concept, Pan-Scandinavianism, which is approximately as old as Pan-Slavism but better based on a much closer cultural and religious affinity.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , July 1961 , pp. 323 - 333
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1961

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