Slav Congress

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As Slavs Congresses are called so-called Panslavic, Pan-Slavic, Allslawische or General Slavic congresses with the advent of Panslawismus , since the eve of the revolution in 1848 , in various cities of Central Europe and Eastern Europe were held.

These Slavic Congresses should not be confused with the scientific Slavic Congresses .

history

The unity of the Slavic peoples was debated in various forms at virtually all of these meetings , always without real results, but influenced by the z. T. rival ideas of the supporters of Austro-Slavism , Trialism , Pan-Russianism , Neo-Slavism etc. and displaced by the dispute over procedure, agenda and voting procedures.

Karl Marx wrote about the first Slavic Congress:

“The Bohemians and Croats called [...] a Slavic Congress in Prague, which was supposed to prepare the general fraternization of the Slavs. The congress would have failed completely without the intervention of the Austrian military. The various Slavic languages ​​are just as different from one another as English, German and Swedish, and when the negotiations were opened there was no common Slavic language through which the speakers could make themselves understood. French was tried, but the majority did not understand it either, and the poor Slavic enthusiasts, whose only common feeling was their common hatred of the Germans, were eventually compelled to express themselves in the hated German language, as the only ones who that they all understood. At the same time another Slavic congress was meeting in Prague, in the form of Galician Uhlans, Croatian and Slovak grenadiers, and Bohemian gunners and cuirassiers; and this real, armed Slavic Congress under the command of Windischgrätz chased the founders of the imagined Slavic supremacy out of the city in less than twenty-four hours and scattered them to the wind. "

List of Slavic Congresses

The numbering of these conferences differs from each other (mostly: 1. in Prague , 2. in Moscow ) - each depending on which political direction called for them.

  • 1998 in Prague (7.)
  • 2001 in Moscow (8.)
  • 2005 in Minsk (9.)
  • 2017 in Moscow (10.)

Regional congresses in the USA

In the USA , further congresses of Slavic immigrants from North America came about: The merger z. B. The Serbs and Croats were promised in Chicago in 1915 , that of the Czechs and Slovaks in 1918, then in 1944 the common struggle of all Slavs against National Socialist Germany .

However, numerous smaller Slavic congresses of this or later times can no longer be described as Pan-Slavic , All-Slavic or general .

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  1. ^ Karl Marx: Revolution and counter-revolution in Germany . Ed .: Karl Kautsky. Dietz, Stuttgart 1896, p. 64 .