Mitul veşnic al panslavismului: A treia Romă

Abstract

Russia, from Peter the Great, fervently desired to become a European Russia, the political, social and especially economic policy created a veritable complex European giving birth in the nineteenth century favorable current Western civilization, and one opus "Europeanization" of Russia - Slovofiliei. But the purpose of both trends had the same goal, to make Russia a powerful state in the world arena. Russian messianism appears as the myth of the Third Rome. Muscovite Russia claimed to State succession Russia Kieviene (who would inherit the "soul") and the Byzantine Empire. Around this myth they were born subsequent ideals of Russia: the populist movement, Slavophilism, nationalism, socialism and the tsarist and Soviet imperialism.

Keywords

• third rome
• russia
• byzantine empire
• russian messianism
• nationalism