Pan-Slavism myth in the Cold War western historiography
Abstract
The article deals with the key western works on Pan-Slavism, published during the Cold War period. The author analyses an ideology influence on research concepts. The geopolitical realities of the Cold War consolidated the Pan-Slavic historiography myth that was created as far back as the inter-war period. These realities also contributed to the fact that the myth – without any critical analysis or scientific comprehension – was included in the research on the history of international relations and the Russian foreign policy of the 19th – 20th centuries. Nevertheless, together with the works based on ideological cliché, in the USA and Western Europe there developed a scientific school that investigated the Slavic factor in its entire complexity and that was grounded on the comparison of various sources.
About the Author
O. V. Pavlenko
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Pavlenko Olga V. – Ph.D. in History, vice rector for Research; head, Department of Foreign Area Studies and Foreign Policy, Faculty of International Relations and of Foreign Area Studies, Institute for History and Archives.
Russian Federation
Pavlenko Olga V. – Ph.D. in History, vice rector for Research; head, Department of Foreign Area Studies and Foreign Policy, Faculty of International Relations and of Foreign Area Studies, Institute for History and Archives.
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Pavlenko O.V. Pan-Slavism myth in the Cold War western historiography. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2017;(4/1):9-15. (In Russ.)
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