The Slavic question as presented in The Bulletin of Europe (1870 - beg. 1877)

Abstract

The article analyses the westernizer-liberals approaches
to the Slavic question. It investigates the evolution
of its perception being reflected in The Bulletin of Europe
within the period of 1870-1877. While discussing the Slavic
question the authors of the journal tried to attract the readers
attention to the unsolved problems of the internal development
of the Russian state, great attention was also paid to
the discussion of liberal freedoms. On the other hand, while
expressing sympathy to the Slavic struggle for independence,
the liberal journal stressed that they support not the national
principle but the struggle of the other nation for freedom. On
the whole, their effort to join the values of liberalism with the
idea of a specific historical mission of Russia at the Balkans
has some traces of adjusting liberal principles to the ethnic
situation, i.e. forming of national-liberal paradigm.