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Scythism|ˈsɪθɪz(ə)m, ˈsɪðɪz(ə)m|
[ad. late Gr. σκυθισµός, f. σκύθης Scyth: see -ism.]
†a. The type of paganism to which the religion of the Scythians belonged. Obs.
b. (See quot. 1793.) Obs.
1609Bible (Douay) Gen. Contin. Ch. 48 The second mother of al Sectes beginning after the floud..was Scythisme. 1793J. Hely tr. O'Flaherty's Ogygia Pref. 59 The Scythians are looked upon to be the most ancient people. Ibid. 70 Where⁓fore that interval of time..between the deluge and the Babylonian monarchy..is denominated a scythesm, as Epiphanius affirms. 1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. I. 86 From their supposed founders..we may call the one Scythism, and the other Ionism.
c. Russ. Lit. A movement among Russian men of letters soon after the Revolution of 1917 which favoured the peasant values of Asiatic Russia as against Western European civilization. Also ˈScythianism.
The term is a rendering of Russ. skifstvo.
1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia v. 164, I am glad that Russia flies back into savage Russianism, Scythism, savagely self-pivoting. 1923Contemp. Rev. Aug. 193 National Bolshevism is of much more recent growth than either Bolshevism or Scythianism. 1926Encycl. Brit. III. 1070/1 Moscow became the scene of a struggle between what may be called ‘Europeanism’ and what is known there as ‘Scythism’. Scythism, which achieved the miracle of rallying to the Bolshevik standard the Russian reactionaries who were most violently opposed to it, inculcates scorn and hatred of western civilization, and aims at nothing less than Asia's vengeance on Europe. 1958E. H. Carr Socialism in One Country I. ii. 60 After the publication of Blok's poem the name ‘Scythism’ (Skifstvo) came to be applied, not to a literary movement, but to a tendency which inspired many writers in the first years of the revolution. 1963G. Struve in Hayward & Labedz Lit. & Revol. in Soviet Russia 4 R. Ivanov-Razumnik..the main ideologist, in the early days of the Revolution, of the so-called ‘Scythianism’. 1972B. Thomson Premature Revol. i. vii. 130 The peasant poets were..more sympathetic to the Social-Revolutionaries than to the Bolsheviks... Under the guidance of Ivanov-Razumnik they formed a movement, called Scythianism (‘Skifstvo’). |