"Languages are not studied by sympathies or antipathies, but only by requirements of practical suitability": The dispute between academists Lamansky and Stojanovich about the role of the Russian language for integration of the Slavs in the early 20th century
The article dwells on the discussion about the role of the Russian language for the integration of the Slavs between two generations of Panslavists: the “patriarch of Russian Slavic studies” and a convinced Slavophile V.I. Lamansky (1825-1902) and a supporter of the “new Slavic worldview”, leader of the Serbian “Radical Party” Lubomir Stojanovic (1860-1930), which unfolded in the journal “Slavyanskyy vek” (Vienna, 1900-1904). The analysis of their argumentation makes it possible to understand the transformations that took place in the ideology of Pan-Slavism in the early 20th century, to explain the revival of the interest in the “Slavic idea” at the turn of the century, and to characterize Pan-Slavism as “cultural and economic” phenomenon in the early the 20th century.