The article examines, on the one hand, the religious-philosophical expectations of Russian society on the eve of the First World War, generalized conventionally as Slavophilic and representing irrational Russian thought. On the other hand, the article also explores the pragmatic view of Russian participation in the First World War taken by the Russian classical liberals of the early 20th century, as well as the classical conservative, but also pragmatic thought of Eurasian historiosophers. One of the main misconceptions of Slavophilic circles about Russia's Slavic mission in the war and a comparison between WWI and the Russo-Turkish Liberation War of 1877-1878 are analyzed.
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