The Slavic idea and its forms in political journalism of Russian émigrés in the 1920s

Introduction. The article studies the reflections on the Slavic idea in Russian émigré political journalism in the 1920s.

Materials and Methods. The source base for the article are the journalistic works of a number of representatives of various ideological and political movements of the Russian postrevolutionary emigration: A.S. Izgoev, P.B. Struve, P.N. Milyukov, N.A. Firks, E.V. Spectorsky, A.L. Pogodin, V.I. Lebedev.

Analysis. The author examines the features of views among different trends of Russian socio-political thought on the Slavic world and interSlavic relations in the new political conditions that formed after the First World War. In particular, the results of the war included the subsequent processes of national-political reorganization of CentralEastern and South-Eastern Europe, as well as the revolutions that took place in Russia (1917) and Austria-Hungary (1918). These events and processes facilitated the reconsideration of previously established views on the Slavic idea, as well as the prospects for its application in political projects in the region.

Results. The discussions about the Slavic idea that arose in the Russian émigré environment touched upon important issues: the future of the Slavic world, the place and role of Russia among the Slavs, the Bolshevik factor and Slavism, the correlation between the forms of the Slavic idea and the national political projects of the young multi-ethnic states, primarily Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Yugoslavia.

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