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- Russian · borrowed fromза́падничество
- English todayzapadnichestvo
From Russian за́падничество (západničestvo).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
zapadnichestvo
Today it means: An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government. Full definition →
Russian за́падничество