Slavophilism and Westernism were indeed the two sides of the same set of aspirations and sentiments, one facing an image of the past, and the other that of the future.
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Westernism
Synonyms for "westernism" (2 found)
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Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
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5 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 11 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- захо́дніцтва noun (19th century ideology)
Bulgarian
1 entries- западничество noun (19th century ideology)
Czech
1 entries- západnictví noun (19th century ideology)
French
1 entries- occidentaliste noun (19th century ideology)
Italian
1 entries- occidentalismo noun (19th century ideology)
Polish
3 entries- okcydentaliz noun (19th century ideology)
- zapadnictwo noun (19th century ideology)
- zapadniczestwo noun (19th century ideology)
Russian
1 entries- за́падничество noun (19th century ideology)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- vesternizam noun (19th century ideology)
- zapadnjaštvo noun (19th century ideology)
- вестернизам noun (19th century ideology)
- западњаштво noun (19th century ideology)
Slovak
1 entries- západníctvo noun (19th century ideology)
Swedish
1 entries- zapadnitjestvo noun (19th century ideology)
Ukrainian
1 entries- за́хідництво noun (19th century ideology)
Sample sentences
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In the coming decades, the tumult of revolution and war together with the mistakes, compromises, and ambitions of the country's new leaders would bring Russia's "Asiatic" heritage to the fore and sweep away a still-fragile Westernism.
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This description of a typical serious circle exposes the limitation which was so fundamental to Russian Westernism after the failure of the Decembrist revolt—the absence of any relation between thought and practice.
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