On a recent morning I came to a section titled “Confessions of a Slavophile” in the July and August 1877 issue of Dostoevsky’s A Writer’s Diary. Here Dostoevsky identifies himself as among those for whom Slavophile doctrine means a spiritual union of all who believe that our great Russia, at the head of the united Slavs, will pronounce to the whole world, to the whole of European humanity and civilization, its own, new healthy word, a word that the world has not yet heard. This word will be uttered for the sake of a blessed and genuine union of all humanity in a new, fraternal, universal alliance whose fundamental principles are already found in the animating spirit of the Slavs and above all in the spirit of the great Russian People, who have suffered for so long, who have been condemned to silence for so many centuries, but who have always possessed mighty powers for the future clarification and solution of many painful and fateful misapprehensions of western European civilization.
well thought out