Pan-Slavism and the periodic system of the elements

Raos, Nenad

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Title

Pan-Slavism and the periodic system of the elements

Author(s)

Raos, Nenad

Issue Date

2012-03-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• Periodic system element
• Slavic nation history

Abstract

The Pan-Slavic and Pan-Germanic movements commenced after the end of Napoleonic wars in Europe in 1815. On the one hand, these movements were a reaction to French and British imperialism, and on the other, they were a reflection of democratic processes, which were viewed at that time primarily as a striving for the self-detn. of nations. But nationalism as a desire for self-detn. of a nation gradually turned into unjustified national pride, then to antagonism towards other nations, and eventually to the political desire to enslave foreign nations both economically and politically (imperialism, colonialism). Similar things happened to the two movements; while their political outcomes were Nazism and Stalinism, from a cultural perspective they led to a very peculiar acceptance of the periodic system of elements by Slavic nations.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127823

DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2012v037p024

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