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Jan Kollar, famed poet, romantic nationalist, and Lutheran pastor for the Slovak community in Budapest, took the Slavic world by storm in the early nineteenth century with his idea of Slavic Reciprocity. Kollar conceived of Russians, Poles, Czechs, and South Slavs as tribes of one great Slavic nation, destined for a glorious future if they would but unite. Kollar's ideals inspired poets, patriots, and politicians for over a century. Ironically, the (linguistic) reforms Kollar suggested for bringing about Slavic unity ultimately contributed to the fragmentation of the Slavic world. Kollar's book on Slavic Reciprocity has been published in German, Czech, Serbian, and Russian, but now appears for the first time in English, annotated, and accompanied by an introductory essay on Kollar's life, influences, and posthumous impact on the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Republics.
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