Russian Conservative Publicists of the Early 20th Century on the Idea of Slavic Unity

Abstract

The article analyzes the publications of Russian conservative publicists of the early twentieth century on the idea of Slavic unity and all-Slavic reciprocity. The analysis showed that the ideas written by the glorious lovers of the 19th century were still in demand by the monarchist authors, organically fit into the conservative discourse of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Nevertheless, the right-wing, nationalist wing of the Russian conservatives opposed political unification with other Slavic lands, because it harmed the hegemony of Russia in the world. They proposed to see the Slavic phenomenon as a cultural phenomenon, without introducing it into the field of geopolitics. National conservatism came to replace all-Slavic conservatism, which was more realistic and therefore had more reasons to be realized.