Zapadnichestvo

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government. historical, rare, uncountable

    "In general, however, this leftist wing of zapadnichestvo became more Russian in character , and offered a more original interpretation of Russia's path of development than the liberal versions."

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westernism

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"In general, however, this leftist wing of zapadnichestvo became more Russian in character , and offered a more original interpretation of Russia's path of development than the liberal versions."

Etymology

From Russian за́падничество (západničestvo).

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