Slavic peoples

representatives of the Slavic nations, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Bulgarians, Poles, Slovaks, Czechs, Yugoslavs, who have their own specific culture and a kind of national psychology. In the dictionary, we consider only the national-psychological characteristics of representatives Slavic peoples who lived in Russia since ancient times.

, (see) and Belarusians (see) - peoples that are very close to each other in terms of genotype, language, culture, community historical development. The vast majority of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians live within their historically established ethnic territories. But in other states, in various regions of our country, they are settled quite widely and often make up a significant part of their population.

The Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations are among the most urbanized. Thus, in Russia 74 percent is urban population, 26 percent - rural. In Ukraine - 67 and 33 percent, in Belarus - 65 and 35 percent, respectively. This circumstance leaves its mark on their psychological makeup, the specifics of their relations with representatives of other ethnic communities. Young people living in big cities, more educated, technically literate, erudite. On the other hand, a certain part of them, especially in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Minsk and many other large cities, are subject to the vices of the urban lifestyle, such as drunkenness, drug addiction, debauchery, theft, etc. (which, certainly applies not only to representatives of these nations). Citizens who, as a rule, grew up in small families, in conditions of domestic comfort, are often poorly prepared for the complexities of today's life: a tense rhythm, increased psychophysiological socio-economic stress. They often turn out to be unprotected in interpersonal relationships, their moral, psychological and moral guidelines are not sufficiently stable.

The study of various sources reflecting the life, culture and way of life of representatives of Slavic nationalities, the results of special socio-psychological studies indicates that, in general, most of them are currently characterized by:

High degree of understanding surrounding reality, although somewhat delayed in time from a specific situation;

Sufficiently high general education level and preparedness for life and work;

Balance in decisions, actions and labor activity, reactions to the complexities and difficulties of life;

Sociability, friendliness without obtrusiveness, constant readiness to provide support to other people;

A fairly even and friendly attitude towards representatives of other nationalities;

Absence under normal circumstances Everyday life striving for the formation of ethnically isolated microgroups;

IN extreme conditions life and activities that require the utmost tension of spiritual and physical strength, they invariably show stamina, selflessness, readiness for self-sacrifice in the name of other people.

Unfortunately, now that Ukraine and Belarus have separated themselves and are not part of a single state with the Russians, we have to consider the psychology of their peoples separately from the Russians. There is a certain amount of injustice in this, because the representatives of these three nationalities, perhaps, have more in common in behavior, traditions and customs than other people. At the same time, this fact once again confirms the unshakable truth: there are concepts of "we" and "they", which still reflect the objective reality. human existence, without which we cannot do without.

Ethnopsychological dictionary. - M.: MPSI. V.G. Krysko. 1999

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Books

• Noomachia. Mind Wars. Eastern Europe. Slavic Logos. Balkan Nav and Sarmatian style, Alexander G. Dugin. Slavic peoples since the 5th-6th centuries. according to R. Kh. played a decisive role in space of Eastern Europe. This volume of "Noomachia" deals with the Slavic horizon of Eastern Europe, which ...

All Slavic peoples are usually divided into 3 groups: Western Slavs (Czechs, Slovaks, Poles), East Slavs(Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians) and southern Slavs (Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Bulgarians).

East Slavic group

According to the 1989 census

There were 145.2 Russians in the USSR

million people, Ukrainians - 44.2 million people, Belarusians - 10 million people. Russians and Ukrainians have always been the most numerous nationalities in the USSR, Belarusians in the 1960s gave way to Uzbeks in third place (16.7 million people in 1989).

Until recently, the name "Russians" was often indiscriminately assigned to all Eastern Slavs. Between the 10th and 13th centuries The center of Rus' was Kyiv and its inhabitants were known as "Rusichi". But as political conditions contributed to the strengthening of linguistic and cultural differences between the territorial groups of the Eastern Slavs, they divided into Little Russians (Ukrainians), Belorussians (Belarusians) and Great Russians (Russians).

Over the centuries of territorial expansion, the Russians assimilated the Varangians, Tatars, Finno-Ugric peoples and dozens of peoples of Siberia. All of them left their linguistic traces, but did not noticeably affect the Slavic identity. While Russians migrated throughout northern Eurasia, Ukrainians and Belarusians continued to inhabit their compact ethnic ranges. The modern borders of the three states roughly correspond to ethnic borders, but all Slavic territories have never been nationally homogeneous. Ethnic Ukrainians in 1989 made up 72.7% of the population of their republic, Belarusians - 77.9%, and Russians - 81.5%. 1

Russians in Russian Federation in 1989 there were 119,865.9 thousand people. In other republics former USSR The Russian population was distributed as follows: in Ukraine it was 1,1355.6 thousand people. (22% of the population of the republic), in Kazakhstan - 6227.5 thousand people. (37.8% respectively), Uzbekistan - 1653.5 thousand people. (8%), Belarus - 1342 thousand people. (13.2% of the population of the republic), Kyrgyzstan - 916.6 thousand people. (21.5% of the population of the republic), Latvia - 905.5 thousand people. (37.6% of the population of the republic), Moldova - 562 thousand people. (13% of the population of the republic), Estonia - 474.8 thousand people. (30% of the population of the republic), Azerbaijan - 392.3 thousand people. (5.5% of the population of the republic), Tajikistan - 388.5

thousand people (7.6% of the population of the republic), Georgia - 341.2

thousand people (6.3% of the population of the republic), Lithuania - 344.5

thousand people (9.3% of the population of the republic), Turkmenistan - 333.9 thousand people. (9.4% of the population of the republic), Armenia - 51.5 thousand people. (1.5% of the population of the republic). In the far abroad, the Russian population as a whole is 1.4 million people, the majority live in the USA (1 million people).

The emergence of regional differences among the Russian people dates back to the feudal period. Even among the ancient East Slavic tribes, differences in material culture between north and south. These differences intensified further after active ethnic contacts and assimilation of the non-Slavic population of Asia and Eastern Europe. The formation of regional differences was also facilitated by the presence of a special military population on the borders. According to ethnographic and dialectological features, the most noticeable differences between the Russians of the north and south European Russia. Between them there is a wide intermediate zone - Central Russian, where northern and southern features are combined in spiritual and material culture. The Volgars - Russians of the Middle and Lower Volga regions - are distinguished into a separate regional group.

Ethnographers and linguists also distinguish three transitional groups: western (inhabitants of the basins of the rivers Velikaya, upper Dnieper and Western Dvina) - transitional between the North and Central Russian, Middle and South Russian groups and Belarusians; northeastern (Russian population of Kirov, Perm, Sverdlovsk regions), formed after the settlement of Russian territories in the 15th 1-17th centuries, close in dialect to the North Russian group, but having Central Russian features due to the two main directions along which the region was settled - from the north and from the center of European Russia; southeast(Russian Rostov region, Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories), close to the South Russian group in terms of language, folklore and material culture.

Other, smaller, historical and cultural groups of the Russian people include Pomors, Cossacks, old-timers-Kerzhaks and Siberians-mestizos.

In the narrow sense, the Pomors are usually called the Russian population of the White Sea coast from Onega to Kem, and in a broader sense, all the inhabitants of the coast of the northern seas washing European Russia.

The Pomors are the descendants of the ancient Novgorodians, who differed from the North Russian in the features of the economy and life associated with the sea and marine crafts.

The ethno-class group of the Cossacks is peculiar - Amur, Astrakhan, Don, Transbaikal, Kuban, Orenburg, Semirechensk, Siberian, Terek, Ural, Ussuri.

Don, Ural, Orenburg, Terek, Transbaikal and Amur Cossacks, although they had different origins, differed from the peasants in their economic privileges and self-government. Don Cossacks, formed in the ХУ1-ХУХ centuries. from Slavic and Asian components, historically divided into Verkhovsky and Ponizovsky. Among the Verkhovsky Cossacks there were more Russians, among the Poniz Cossacks Ukrainians prevailed. The North Caucasian (Terek and Grebensky) Cossacks were close to the mountain peoples. The core of the Ural Cossacks in the XVI century. were immigrants from the Don, and the core of the Trans-Baikal Cossacks, who appeared later, in XIX century, - formed not only Russians, but also Buryats with Evenks.

The old-timers of Siberia are the descendants of the settlers of the ХУ1-ХУН centuries. from Northern Russia and the Urals. Among the West Siberian old-timers, okane is more common, and in Eastern Siberia besides the Russians, there are also okers - people from the southern Russian lands. The akanye is especially widespread on Far East, where the descendants of new settlers of the late XIX

Early 20th century

Many Kerzhaks - Siberian Old Believers - have retained their ethnographic features. Among them stand out: “masons”, descendants of white Old Believers from the mountainous regions of Altai, living along the Bukhtarma and Uimon rivers; "Poles", speaking the dialect of Akah, the descendants of the Old Believers who were resettled after the partition of Poland from the town of Vetki in the Ust-

Kamenogorsk; "family", the descendants of the Old Believers, evicted from European Russia in Transbaikalia in the XVIII

Among the mestizo Siberians, there are Yakutians and Kolymians, descendants of mixed Russian-Yakut marriages, Kamchadals, Karyms (Russified Buryats of Transbaikalia) and descendants of tundra peasants who adopted the Dogan language and customs, living along the Dudinka and Khatanga rivers.

Ukrainians (4362.9 thousand people) live mainly in the Tyumen region (260.2 thousand people), Moscow (247.3 thousand people), and in addition, in the Moscow region, in the regions bordering Ukraine , in the Urals and in Siberia. Of these, 42.8% consider Ukrainian as their native language, and another 15.6% are fluent in it, 57% of Russian Ukrainians consider Russian as their native language. There are no Ukrainian ethnographic groups within Russia. Among the Kuban (Black Sea) Cossacks, the Ukrainian component prevails.

Belarusians (1206.2 thousand people) live dispersed throughout Russia and mainly (80%) in cities. Among them, a special ethnographic group Poleshchuk.

Germanic peoples

Germans. The basis of the German ethnos was the ancient Germanic tribal associations of the Franks, Saxons, Bavarians, Alemanni, and others, mixed in the first centuries of our era with the Romanized Celtic population and with the Rhets. After the division of the Frankish Empire (843), the East Frankish kingdom stood out with a German-speaking population. The name (Deutsch) has been known since the middle of the 10th century, which indicates the formation of the German ethnos. The capture of the lands of the Slavs and Prussians3 in the X-XI centuries. led to the partial assimilation of the local population.

English. The ethnic basis of the English nation was made up of the Germanic tribes of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians, who conquered in the 5th-6th centuries. Celtic Britain. In the 7th-10th centuries an Anglo-Saxon people developed, which also absorbed Celtic elements. Later, the Anglo-Saxons, mixed with the Danes, Norwegians, and after the Norman conquest of England in 1066 by immigrants from France, laid the foundation for the English nation.

Norse. The ancestors of the Norsemen - Germanic tribes of pastoralists and farmers - came to Scandinavia at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. e. In Old English sources of the ninth century. for the first time the term "nordmann" - "northern man" (Norwegian) is encountered. Education in X-X! centuries the early feudal state and Christianization contributed to the formation of the Norwegian people around this time. In the Viking Age (IX-XI centuries), settlers from Norway created colonies on the islands North Atlantic and in Iceland (Faroese, Icelanders).

Slavic peoples

The Slavs are the largest group of related peoples in Europe. It consists of Slavs: eastern (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians), western (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Lusatians) and southern (Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Muslims, Macedonians, Bosnians). The origin of the ethnonym "Slavs" is not clear enough. It can be assumed that it goes back to the common Indo-European root, the semantic content of which is the concepts of "man", "people". The ethnogenesis of the Slavs probably developed in stages (Proto-Slavs, Proto-Slavs and the early Slavic ethnolinguistic community). By the second half of the 1st millennium AD. e. formed separate Slavic ethnic communities(tribal unions).

Slavic ethnic communities were originally formed in the area either between the Oder and the Vistula, or between the Oder and the Dnieper. Various ethnic groups took part in ethnogenetic processes - both Slavic and non-Slavic: Dacians, Thracians, Turks, Balts, Finno-Ugric peoples, etc. From here, the Slavs began to gradually move in the southwestern, western and northern directions, which coincided in mainly with the final phase of the Great Migration of Nations (U-UI centuries). As a result, in the K-X centuries. an extensive area of ​​Slavic settlement developed: from the modern Russian North and the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean and from the Volga to the Elbe.

The emergence of statehood among the Slavs dates back to the UP-GH centuries. (The first Bulgarian kingdom, Kievan Rus, the Great Moravian state, the Old Polish state, etc.). The nature, dynamics and pace of formation of the Slavic peoples were largely influenced by social and political factors. So, in the ninth century. the lands inhabited by the ancestors of the Slovenes were captured by the Germans and became part of the Holy Roman Empire, and at the beginning of the 10th century. the ancestors of the Slovaks after the fall of the Great Moravian state were included in the Hungarian state. The process of ethno-social development among the Bulgarians and Serbs was interrupted in the XIV century. Ottoman (Turkish) invasion, stretching for five hundred years. Croatia in view of the danger from the outside in early XII V. recognized the power of the Hungarian kings. Czech lands in early XVII V. were incorporated into the Austrian monarchy, and Poland survived in late XVIII V. several sections.

Specific Features had the development of the Slavs in Eastern Europe. The peculiarity of the formation process individual nations(Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians) consisted in the fact that they equally survived the stage of the Old Russian nationality and were formed as a result of the differentiation of the Old Russian nationality into three independent closely related ethnic groups (XIV-XVI centuries). In the XVII-XIII centuries. Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians ended up in one state - Russian Empire. The process of formation of nations proceeded among these ethnic groups at a different pace, which was determined by the peculiar historical, ethno-political and ethno-cultural situations experienced by each of the three peoples. So, for Belarusians and Ukrainians important role played the need to resist Polonization and Magyarization, the incompleteness of their ethno-social structure, formed as a result of the merger of their own upper social strata with the upper social strata of Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, etc.

The process of formation of the Russian nation proceeded simultaneously with the formation of the Ukrainian and Belarusian nations. In the conditions of the liberation war against the Tatar-Mongol yoke ( mid-twelfth- the end of the XV century) there was an ethnic consolidation of the principalities of North-Eastern Rus', which formed in the XIU-XU centuries. Moscow Rus'. The Eastern Slavs of Rostov, Suzdal, Vladimir, Moscow, Tver and Novgorod lands became the ethnic core of the emerging Russian nation. One of key features ethnic history Russians were the constant presence of sparsely populated areas adjacent to the main Russian ethnic territory, and the centuries-old migration activity of the Russian population. As a result, a vast ethnic territory of Russians gradually formed, surrounded by a zone of constant ethnic contacts with peoples of various origins, cultural traditions and language (Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Baltic, Mongolian, West and South Slavic, Caucasian, etc.).

The Ukrainian people was formed on the basis of a part of the East Slavic population, which was previously part of a single ancient Russian state(IX-

XII centuries). Ukrainian nation developed in the southwestern regions of this state (the territory of Kyiv, Pereyaslav, Chernigov-Seversky, Volyn and Galician principalities) mainly in the XIU-XU centuries. Despite the capture in the XV century. a large part of Ukrainian lands by Polish-Lithuanian feudal lords, in the 17th-17th centuries. in the course of the struggle against the Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian conquerors and opposition to the Tatar khans, the consolidation of the Ukrainian people continued. In the XVI century. the Ukrainian (so-called Old Ukrainian) book language was formed.

In the 17th century Ukraine reunited with Russia (1654). In the 90s of the XVIII century. Russia included the Right-bank Ukraine and the southern Ukrainian lands, and in the first half of the 19th century. - Danubian. The name "Ukraine" was used to designate various southern and southwestern parts of the Old Russian lands as early as the 12th century.

13th century Subsequently (by the 18th century), this term in the meaning of "krajina", i.e. country, was fixed in official documents, became widespread and became the basis for the ethnonym of the Ukrainian people.

The most ancient ethnic basis of the Belarusians was the East Slavic tribes, which partially assimilated the Lithuanian tribes of the Yotvingians. In the IX-XI centuries. were part of Kievan Rus. After a period feudal fragmentation from the middle of the XIII - during the XIV century. the lands of Belarus were part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, then in the 16th century. - part of the Commonwealth. In the XIV-XVI centuries. formed Belarusian people developed its culture. At the end of the XVIII century. Belarus reunited with Russia.

Other peoples of Europe

Celts (Gauls) - ancient Indo-European tribes that lived in the second half of the 1st millennium BC. e. on the territory of modern France, Belgium, Switzerland, southern Germany, Austria, northern Italy, northern and western parts of Spain, the British Isles, the Czech Republic, partly Hungary and Bulgaria. By the middle of the 1st c. BC e. were conquered by the Romans. The Celtic tribes included the Britons, Gauls, Helvetians, and others.

Greeks. Ethnic composition territories Ancient Greece in the III millennium BC. e. was motley: Pelasgians, Lelegs and other peoples who were pushed back and assimilated by the proto-Greek tribes - Achaeans, Ionians and Dorians. The ancient Greek people began to form in the II millennium BC. e., and in the era Greek colonization coasts of the Mediterranean and Black Seas (VIII-VI centuries BC), a common Greek cultural unity was formed - Hellenes (from the name of the tribe that inhabited Hellas - a region in Thessaly). The ethnonym "Greeks" originally referred, apparently, to one of the tribes in Northern Greece, then was borrowed by the Romans and extended to all Hellenes. The ancient Greeks created a highly developed ancient civilization that played big role in the development of European culture. In the Middle Ages, the Greeks were the main core Byzantine Empire and were officially called Romans (Romans). Gradually, they assimilated the groups of Thracians, Illyrians, Celts, Slavs, and Albanians that migrated from the north. Ottoman domination in the Balkans (XV - first half of the XIX century) was largely reflected in the material culture and language of the Greeks. As a result of the national liberation movement in the XIX century. the Greek state was formed.

Finns. The Finnish nationality was formed in the process of merging the tribes that lived on the territory of modern Finland. In the XII-XIII centuries. Finnish lands were conquered by the Swedes, who left a noticeable imprint on the culture of the Finns. In the XVI century. Finnish writing appeared. WITH early XIX until the beginning of the 20th century. Finland was part of the Russian Empire with the status of an autonomous grand duchy.

The ethnic composition of the population of Europe as a whole is given in Table. 4.3.

Table 4.3. ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF THE POPULATION OF EUROPE (data are given as of mid-1985, including the former USSR)

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Books

• Slavs, their mutual relations and connections T. 1-3, . Slavs, their mutual relations and connections / Op. Joseph Pervolf, ord. prof. Warsaw. university T. 1-3A 183/690 U 62/317 U 390/30 U 238/562: Warsaw: typ. Warsaw. textbook okr., 1893: Reproduced in ...
• Slavs in European History and Civilization, Frantisek Dvornik. The proposed edition is the first monographic publication in Russian by one of the largest Byzantine and Slavic scholars of the 20th century Frantisek Dvornik (1893-1975). Book `Slavs...

Slavic countries are states that have existed or still exist, having for the most part its population of Slavs (Slavic peoples). The Slavic countries of the world are those countries in which the Slavic population is about eighty to ninety percent.

What countries are Slavic?

Slavic countries of Europe:

But still, to the question “the population of which country belongs to Slavic group? The answer immediately suggests itself - Russia. The population of the Slavic countries today is about three hundred million people. But there are other countries in which Slavic peoples live (these are European states, North America, Asia) and speak Slavic languages.

The countries of the Slavic group can be divided into:

• West Slavic.
• East Slavic.
• South Slavic.

The languages ​​in these countries are descended from one common language(it is called Proto-Slavic), which once existed among the ancient Slavs. It was formed in the second half of the first millennium AD. It is not surprising that most words are consonant (for example, Russian and Ukrainian languages very similar). There are also similarities in grammar, sentence structure, and phonetics. This is easy to explain if we take into account the duration of contacts between the inhabitants of the Slavic states. The lion's share in the structure of the Slavic languages ​​is occupied by Russian. Its carriers are 250 million people.

Interestingly, the flags of the Slavic countries also have some similarities in color solution, in the presence of longitudinal stripes. Is it somehow related to their common origin? More likely yes than no.

The countries where Slavic languages ​​are spoken are not so numerous. But still Slavic languages still exist and thrive. And it's been hundreds of years! This only means that the Slavic people are the most powerful, steadfast, unshakable. It is important that the Slavs do not lose the originality of their culture, respect for their ancestors, honor them and keep traditions.

Today there are many organizations (both in Russia and abroad) that revive and restore Slavic culture, Slavic holidays, even names for their children!

The first Slavs appeared in the second or third millennium BC. Of course, the birth of this mighty people took place in the region modern Russia and Europe. Over time, the tribes developed new territories, but still they could not (or did not want to) go far from their ancestral home. By the way, depending on the migration, the Slavs were divided into eastern, western, southern (each branch had its own name). They had differences in lifestyle, agriculture, some traditions. But still the Slavic "core" remained intact.

A major role in the life of the Slavic peoples was played by the emergence of statehood, war, mixing with other ethnic groups. The emergence of separate Slavic states, on the one hand, greatly reduced the migration of the Slavs. But, on the other hand, from that moment on, their mixing with other nationalities also fell sharply. This allowed the Slavic gene pool to firmly gain a foothold on the world stage. This affected both the appearance (which is unique) and the genotype (hereditary traits).

Slavic countries during World War II

Second World War contributed big changes to the countries of the Slavic group. For example, in 1938 the Czechoslovak Republic lost its territorial unity. The Czech Republic ceased to be independent, and Slovakia became a German colony. The following year, the Commonwealth came to an end, and in 1940 the same thing happened with Yugoslavia. Bulgaria sided with the Nazis.

But there were also positive aspects. For example, the formation of anti-fascist trends and organizations. The common misfortune rallied Slavic countries. They fought for independence, for peace, for freedom. Especially such movements gained popularity in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia.

The Soviet Union played a key role in World War II. The citizens of the country selflessly fought against the Hitler regime, against the cruelty of the German soldiers, against the Nazis. The country has lost a huge number of its defenders.

Some Slavic countries during the Second World War were united by the All-Slavic Committee. The latter was created by the Soviet Union.

What is Pan-Slavism?

The concept of pan-Slavism is interesting. This is a direction that appeared in Slavic states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It had the goal of uniting all the Slavs of the world on the basis of their national, cultural, everyday, linguistic community. Pan-Slavism promoted the independence of the Slavs, praised their originality.

The colors of Pan-Slavism were white, blue and red (the same colors appear on many national flags). The emergence of such a direction as pan-Slavism began after the Napoleonic wars. Weakened and "tired", the countries supported each other in Hard time. But over time, Pan-Slavism began to be forgotten. But now there is again a tendency to return to the origins, to the ancestors, to Slavic culture. Perhaps this will lead to the formation of the Neo-Pan-Slavist movement.

Slavic countries today

The twenty-first century is a time of some kind of discord in the relations of the Slavic countries. This is especially true for Russia, Ukraine, EU countries. The reasons here are more political and economic. But despite the discord, many residents of countries (from the Slavic group) remember that all the descendants of the Slavs are brothers. Therefore, none of them wants wars and conflicts, but only warm family relations, as our ancestors once had.