zapadnichestvo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

zapadnichestvo

Etymology

From Russian за́падничество (západničestvo).

Synonyms

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