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Effacing Panslavism: linguistic classification and historiographic misrepresentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alexander Maxwell*
Affiliation:
School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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In the early nineteenth century, several Slavic intellectuals believed in a single Slavic nation speaking a single language, though positing various taxonomies of the nation's component “tribes” and the language's component “dialects.” Nevertheless, recent scholars, both historians and linguists, prove so extraordinarily unwilling to acknowledge the existence of Panslavism that several falsify the historical record so as to make historical figures conform to modern national and linguistic thinking. This paper discusses Jan Kollár, Ljudevit Gaj, and L'udovít Štúr as three sample Panslavs, documents the misrepresentation of their ideas in recent historiography, and explores why so many scholars seek to erase Panslavism from the historical record.

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