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Excerpt from Slavic Europe: A Selected Bibliography in the Western European Languages, Comprising History, Languages and LiteraturesWith the expansion of Russia, the anglo-russian rivalry in the nineteenth century became a decisive factor in determining the character of the information which the average Englishman had about Slavic Europe a point of view which the Agreement of 1907 only partially removed and which the results of the Russian revolution have once more exposed. Some day, perhaps, it may be scientifically determined that it was the lack of knowledge of Slavic Europe which caused a long series of mistakes in the diplomacy and military strategy of the Allies.And we, in America, though always cherishing a platonic interest in Russia, because of the similarity of our problems, have really known very little about the Slavs. It was with the coming of Slavic emigrants that the American first realized the need of knowing more about the Slavs in Europe. And this realization, now in existence, may ultimately lead in the course of time to a more accurate knowledge of and a more disinterested sympathy for Slavic Europe. From the point of view of the Western World, it is vital that the history, the political, economic, and social conditions, and the national aspirations of the Slavs be not only sympathetically understood but utilized for the higher purposes of mankind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.