concept
Slavophiles
also: славянофилы
A 19th-century Russian intellectual movement championing Orthodox, communal, and pre-Petrine Russian values against Western liberalism; Chekhov mocks their public temperament as loudly aggrieved but ineffectual.
Reading notes
- On the Road §56 In my time I was a Slavophile, I pestered Aksakov with letters
Slavophilism, championing Orthodox, communal, pre-Petrine Russian values against Western liberalism, is name-checked here alongside the specific figure of Ivan Aksakov (see the linked entity), the movement's leading publicist and editor, whom Likharev claims to have bombarded with fan letters -- one more marker of his habit of throwing himself wholesale into a cause and its leading personalities.
- Temperaments (According to the Latest Findings of Science) §10 Slavophiles
The Slavophiles were a 19th-century Russian intellectual movement championing Orthodox, communal, and pre-Petrine Russian values against Western liberalism; Chekhov mocks their public temperament as loudly aggrieved but ineffectual.