Pan-Slavism and Slavophilia in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

This book explores origins manifestations and functions of Pan-Slavism in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe arguing that despite the extinction of Pan-Slavism as an articulated Romantic-era geopolitical ideology a number of related discourses metaphors and emotions have spilled over into the mainstream debates and popular imagination. Using the term Slavophilia to capture the range of representations the volume analyses how geopolitical discourses shape the identity and policies of a community providing a comparative analysis that covers a range of Slavic countries in order to understand how Pan-Slavism works and resonates across geographic and political contexts.