Pan-Slavism fused xenophobia with a claim to universal salvation

Evidence

65 A Russian writer once said that Pan-Slavism “engenders an implacable hatred of the West, a morbid cult of everything Russian;…the salvation of the universe is still possible, but it can come about only through Russia… The Pan-Slavists, seeing enemies of their idea everywhere, persecute everybody who does not agree with them…” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2444

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel to the universalizing-mission strand Arendt traces in other nationalisms — a comparative data point for the toolkit. — connects to: Protecting repulsive species offers an antidote to xenophobia aimed at humans — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1316