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THE SLAV NATIONS

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SRGJAN PL. TUCIĆ

English Translation by Fanny S. Copeland

Hodder and Stoughton London New York Toronto MCMXV

CONTENTS.

_PART I._—THE NORTHERN SLAVS.

CHAPTER I.

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THE SLAV RACE 11

Slav Characteristics—Slav Power in the Past—The Decline—The
Dawn?

CHAPTER II.

RUSSIA 20

I. Russian Landscape and the National Character—Rurik
to Peter the Great—German Influence—The Russian
Awakening.

II. Siberia—White Russians—Little Russians—Great
Russians—Cossacks—The People of the Sunflower—Made
in Germany—The Reaction.

CHAPTER III.

RUSSIAN NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS 37

Russian Slavdom—The Mir—Stress and Famine—The
Duma—Russian Literature—Gogol—Tolstoi—Dostoievski—Realistic
Ideals—The Russian Soul.

CHAPTER IV.

POLAND AND BOHEMIA 50

I. The Contrast—National Character of the Poles—Our
Lady of Csenstochova—Dancing Peasants—Galician
Poles—Selfish Policy—Austria a Slav State.

II. The Poles in Russia—Russia’s Repressive Measures—The
Slav Ideal—A Better Understanding—The Poles in
Prussia—The Iron Heel—Law of Expropriation.

III. Csech Characteristics—Professor Masaryk—Jan Huss—Slav
Puritans—The Hradčin—Modern Politics.

_PART II._—THE SOUTHERN SLAVS.

CHAPTER V.

BULGARIA 77

Country and People—The Building up of the Bulgarian
State—Relations with Russia—German Influence—Alexander
of Battenberg—King Ferdinand—Bulgaria’s Immediate Duty.

CHAPTER VI.

SERBIA 98

I. Serbian Self-reliance—Characteristics of the Serb
People—The power of the Folk song—Race-consciousness.

II. History of the Southern Slavs.

III. The Birth of a Nation—Prince Miloš—“The Great
Sower”—Alexander Karagjorgjević—Michael Obrenović—King
Milan—Fall of the Obrenović Dynasty—King Peter—The
Restoration of Serbia’s Prestige.

IV. Serbia and Austria—A Campaign of Calumny—Annexation
of Bosnia-Hercegovina—The Balkan Wars—Serbia
Rehabilitated—The Tragedy of Sarajevo.

CHAPTER VII.

MONTENEGRO 129

The Country of the Black Mountain—Women Warriors—King,
Poet and Farmer—Historical Sketch of Montenegro—Petar
I., Petrović—Petar II.—Pro-Russian Policy—A Royal
Poet—Nikola I.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE SOUTHERN SLAVS OF THE DUAL MONARCHY 138

I. A Homogeneous People—A Militant Past—The
Bogumili—National Bondage—Napoleon—Illyrism—Agreement
with Hungary—Count Khuen-Hedervary.

II. The Greatest Representative of the Southern
Slavs—Strossmayer’s Generosity and courage—Fall of
Count Khuen-Hedervary—Death of Strossmayer.

III. False Dawn—Conference of Fiume—Ban Paul Rauch—Monster
Trial in Zagreb—The Friedjung Case—Cuvaj—Frano
Supilo.

IV. Dalmatia, Istria, Carniola—The Italian
Element—Bosnia—Hercegovina—Conclusion.

EPILOGUE.

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