PT Journal
AU O'Donnell, S
TI "Defenders of the Russian Nation": Slovak American Attitudes towards the Russian Empire, 1905-1918
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2021
BP 104
EP 136
VL 61
IS 2
DI 10.5507/ho.2021.023
DE nationalism; Russia; Russian Revolution; Slovakia; Slovak Americans
AB The Russian Revolution held great significance beyond the empire's borders. As a 'Slav' state and a key member of the Entente alliance, Slav nationalists appealed to the Tsarist regime and its successors to liberate their countrymen living in Central and Eastern Europe. This article studies the relationship between Slovak migrant nationalists in the United States and the Russian Empire. Acting as a second centre of Slovak national life before 1914 and as the self-declared leaders of their political cause in wartime, Slovak American organisations adjusted their attitudes towards the Tsarist state and its successor regimes according to geopolitical calculations rather than ideological convictions.
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