"Unprinted" forms of publicistic activity of the slavophiles

Lebedyantsev Ivan Michailovich

The article issues institutional aspect of public activity of Russian Slavophiles in the time of Nicolas I. Under conditions of harsh censorship both Slavophiles and Westerners did not have an opportunity of publishing of their polemic articles. In the end, the opponents cannot use neither magazines nor newspapers to spread their views but had to search for other ways to do it. The article research the conclusion that the Slavofiles used the same ways to make their views popular as the Westerners did. From the authors point of view there were three forms of such activities: oral polemic, using the handwritten articles and a «mixed» type.

Keywords:Slavofiles, Westerners, censorship, A. Khomyakov, Y. Samarin