zapadnichestvo

See also: западничество

English

Etymology

From Russian за́падничество (západničestvo).

Noun

zapadnichestvo (uncountable)

1. (historical, rare) An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.

   Synonym: Westernism

   Coordinate term: Slavophilism

   • 1999, Jeremy Smith, “Beyond the Limits: The Concept of Space in Russian History and Culture”, in Studia historica, volume 62, SHS, →ISSN, page 18:

     In general, however, this leftist wing of zapadnichestvo became more Russian in character , and offered a more original interpretation of Russia's path of development than the liberal versions.

   • 2012, Christer Pursainen, “A Short History of Catching Up”, in Christer Pursainen, editor, At the Crossroads of Post-Communist Modernisation: Russia and China in Comparative Perspective, Springer, →ISBN, page 26:

     According to the spiritual father of zapadnichestvo in the early nineteenth century, Pyotr Chaadaev, Russia had in no way participated in the development of humankind, and it had merely distorted everything that had been elft over from the progress achieved elsewhere.

Translations

19th century ideology

• Belarusian: захо́дніцтва n (zaxódnictva)
• Bulgarian: западничество n (zapadničestvo)
• Czech: západnictví n
• French: occidentaliste (fr) m or f
• Italian: occidentalismo (it) m
• Polish: okcydentaliz m inan, zapadniczestwo n, zapadnictwo n
• Russian: за́падничество (ru) n (západničestvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: западњаштво n, вестернизам m

  Roman: zapadnjaštvo (sh) n, vesternizam m

• Slovak: západníctvo
• Swedish: zapadnitjestvo ?
• Ukrainian: за́хідництво n (záxidnyctvo)