AHC: PLC survives into 19th century, can it later lead a "pan-slavic" movement?

raharris1973

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If the PLC survives without the three partitions, might it be a leader of pan-slavic movements during the age of nationalism?

On the one hand it had a large share of the European Slavic European peoples already under its roof.

On the other hand, at times its elites embraced non-Slavic identities like, "Sarmatian" and latin.
 
Pan-Slavic? Not. Pan-Slavic Catholic-yes. Catholic Slavs under Austrian rule could use PLC as inspiration in their nation building. Bulgarians or Serbians would still look for Russian support.
 
I think you also need to establish it as the Polish Lithuanian Ruthenian Commonwealth. Without that then a Polish identity will be promoted as the primary Catholic Slav one.
 

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Pan-Slavic? Not. Pan-Slavic Catholic-yes. Catholic Slavs under Austrian rule could use PLC as inspiration in their nation building. Bulgarians or Serbians would still look for Russian support.


So Czechs and Slovaks might take inspiration from Poland?

And through the Slovenes and Croats the Poles might aspire to influence as far south as the Adriatic?
 
So Czechs and Slovaks might take inspiration from Poland?

And through the Slovenes and Croats the Poles might aspire to influence as far south as the Adriatic?
I think for Austrian Slavs PLC could play similar role like France played for Romania. And during national revival, when there was "purification" and standardisation of these languages, Polish words could be used to replace non-Slavic words in these languages, (IOTL for example Czechs used Russian words to replace German ones), ortography would be more based on Polish one and so on. Although it is worth to note that Poles did not emphasised fact that they're Slavs and, for example, Slavic names, which faded out of use in Polish were re-introduced to Poland from Czechs, who preserved them better. In Poland only Slavic names that remained common untill 19th century were names of Slavic saints (like Wojciech or Stanisław) or names that have connotation to God (like Bogumił- "God-loving"), other were banned by Church.
 

raharris1973

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Pan-Slavic? Not. Pan-Slavic Catholic-yes. Catholic Slavs under Austrian rule could use PLC as inspiration in their nation building. Bulgarians or Serbians would still look for Russian support.

An "intermarium" running from the Baltic to the Adriatic instead of from the Baltic to the Black Sea? Croatia as the southern coast of "Poland".
 
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