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International Geo- Political-Cultural Movements and Ideologies. Jewish Anti-Zionist Movements. Zionism before Zionism until This article introduces Slavic unity concepts of the "long" 19th century based on Russian imperial Pan-Slavism and democratic national Austro-Slavism. In the 20th and 21st centuries, references to "Slavism" also functioned as an instrument of cultural political mobilization.
When Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS were founded, the "Slavic idea" was effectively an ideology of state-building integration. Non-Slavic communities, on the other hand, drew on the integrative potential of anti-Slavic discourses. Pan-Slavism, especially in the period before and during the Second World War, was thus seen by Germans, Austrians, Italians, Greeks, Hungarians and Romanians both as a threat and an ideological touchstone for mobilization.
Since the early modern age and increasingly since the 19th century, politicians, scientists, writers, and intellectuals have developed political concepts which are based on the idea of the cultural and linguistic unity of the Slavs. The aim has been to discuss the relationship of the Slavia to Western Europe , the role of Russia , and the relations of the Slavic nations among themselves and to formulate political concepts. They were influenced by Romanticism in general and the writings of Johann Gottfried Herder — in particular.
