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THE SLAVISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND USA ABOUT THE IDEAS OF SLAVOPHILISM

Millionshchikova T.M.

Abstract

The present paper concentrates on the American and English Slavic studies on the philosophical, religious and cultural Russian national aspects of the Slavophilism. The present paper also focuses on the ideas are connected with the Slavophilism’s movement: Westernism, “soil science”, “Russian messianic idea”, “active love”, all-unity. The aim of the paper is to show how the Slavophilism is interpreted in the alien cultural environment – in the Slavic researches of USA and. England and to draw the typological parallels between the Russian ideas of Slavophilism / Westernism and with the analogical historical and cultural concepts of the USA: Communitariаnism – Liberalism / Libertiаnism.

Keywords

F.M. Dostoevsky; L.N. Tolstoy; Slavophilism; Westernism; Orthodox, Catholicism; collegiality; soil science; Russian messianic idea; active love; all-unity; Сommunitariаnism; Liberalism / Libertiаnism.

For citation

Millionshchikova, T.M. “The Slavists of Great Britain and USA About the Ideas of Slavophilism”. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 1(55), 2022, pp. 78–97. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2022.55.04

DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2022.55.04

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