The Slav Role In World Civilization

In this weeks readings I was most interested in the Danilevsky reading regarding the connection between Slavs and Europe as well as comparisons between Russia and Western Europe. There were two main points that I found most important. The first point was the discussion of the slavs inability to form nation states, as well as the Russian inability to create a historically stable state because of the various nationalities and cultures of people that were vested in Russia. In the reading The Slav role in world civilization by Danilevsky the author talks about the lack of unity within the Russian state, because it is composed of over a hundred nationalities. (Danilevsky). I couldn’t help to connect this to the current situation that is still