title: The question of the Balkans on the eve of the First world war according to the ideas of Maksim Kovalevsky
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metadata.value: Savin, Sergey D.
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metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:24:38Z
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metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:24:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-12
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metadata.value: Savin S. D. The question of the Balkans on the eve of the First world war according to the ideas of Maksim Kovalevsky. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2016, issue 4, pp. 186–197.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2016.414
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/5932
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metadata.value: The article deals with the position of the famous scientist and public figure M. M. Kovalevsky about
  war and peace in the Balkans in the early twentieth century. Articles in periodicals from 1909–1913 are
  reviewed, mainly in the literary and political journal ‘Bulletin of Europe’, with Kovalevsky as its editor.
  Kovalevsky based his theory on the political and sociological concept of social progress and solidarity,
  he substantiated the possibility of political unification of the Balkan countries on constitutional
  principles. Among the factors for the Unification of Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro, he
  names common interests, religion, language and culture, the historical past, people’s democracy,
  the struggle for independence. Kovalevsky sees the similarity of these factors with the conditions
  of occurrence of the allied states a new type: the Swiss Confederation and the United States. In the
  opinion of Kovalevsky, opportunities and the collapse of the Balkan Union on the eve of World War I
  were linked mostly with the policy of the world powers of the two opposing blocs, the Triple Alliance
  and the Entente. Russia’s lack of determination to defend her interests and protect the young Balkan
  Union during the wars of 1912–1913 ill served her future and was one of the factors of the period
  leading to the beginning of the First World War. Kovalevsky considered that the Slavic question was
  crucial in the military and ideological confrontation between Russia and the Triple Alliance. The key
  points of struggle among geopolitical interests have become a problem in Serbia and Ukraine. Refs 21.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 2. History;Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: M. Kovalevsky
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: First World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Balkan wars
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Slavic movement XIX–XX centuries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the history of political sociology
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: The question of the Balkans on the eve of the First world war according to the ideas of Maksim Kovalevsky
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