1961/07/01 by Hans Kohn · 6 citations
Social Sciences · #Cartography #Eastern European Communism and Reforms #Geography #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #History #Law #Minor (academic) #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Scale (ratio) #Sociology #Soviet and Russian History
paper · doi:10.1017/s0034670500008767
published in The Review of Politics 23(3), 323-333 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 1961/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
Pan-slavism is one of the elusive idea-concepts which can be easily defined. But the historian can hardly say how far they correspond to a political reality which exercises a decisive impact on the course of history. A similar contemporary ideaconcept is Pan-Africanism, propagated and commended by most Africans. So far it has failed to create a political or economic union. The only example of that kind, and that on a very minor scale, the Mali Federation, dissolved after a short existence. The same holds true of another similar concept, Pan-Scandinavianism, which is approximately as old as Pan-Slavism but better based on a much closer cultural and religious affinity.