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Westernizers, in Russian history: see Slavophiles and Westernizers Slavophiles and Westernizers, designation for two groups of intellectuals in mid-19th-century Russia that represented opposing schools of thought concerning the nature of Russian civilization. The differences between them, however, were not always clear cut. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In his journal, he argued that the westernizers were more dangerous than Christian proselytizers. If Russia has always failed to modernize, if it remains encamped on the outskirts of Europe, it may be that most of its supposed Westernizers were not, and are not, so Western-oriented after all. The "foreign policy debate" in Moscow about shifting from a pro-Western orientation to a more Asian orientation had manifested itself during 1992-93 in many forms: the Kozyrev-Lukin disagreement, the Westernizers vs. |
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