Neo-Slavism
Sign in to savethumb|300px|right|Contemporary map of the Slavic people|Slavic-speaking nations of Europe. [[South Slavs are highlighted in dark green, East Slavs in medium green, and West Slavs in light green.]]Neo-Slavism was a short-lived movement originating in Austria-Hungary around 1908 and influencing nearby Slavic states in the Balkans as well as Russia. Neo-Slavists promoted cooperation between Slavs on equal terms in order to resist Germanization, pursue modernization and liberal reforms, and wanted to create a democratic community of Slavic nations without the dominating influence of Russia.
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thumb|300px|right|Contemporary map of the Slavic people|Slavic-speaking nations of Europe. [[South Slavs are highlighted in dark green, East Slavs in medium green, and West Slavs in light green.]]Neo-Slavism was a short-lived movement originating in Austria-Hungary around 1908 and influencing nearby Slavic states in the Balkans as well as Russia. Neo-Slavists promoted cooperation between Slavs on equal terms in order to resist Germanization, pursue modernization and liberal reforms, and wanted to create a democratic community of Slavic nations without the dominating influence of Russia.
It was a branch of a larger and older Pan-Slavism ideology. Unlike Pan-Slavism, Neo-Slavism did not attach importance to religion and did not discriminate between Catholics and Orthodox believers, did not support the creation of a single Slavic state and was interested mostly in a non-violent realization of its program.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neo-Slavism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.