PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - O'Donnell, Stephen
TI  - "Defenders of the Russian Nation": Slovak American Attitudes towards the Russian Empire, 1905-1918
DP  - 2021 Dec 11
TA  - Historica Olomucensia
PG  - 104--136
VI  - 61
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/ho.2021.023
IS  - 18039561
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.