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The feeling of unity between the Swedish-speaking rural population and the (remains of the) Swedish-speaking elite is the lasting legacy of the Svecoman movement, and this became the core idea of the
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The Fennomans were favoured by the Russian authorities, while the Svecomans channeled the remaining fear of the Russians and the cultural attachment to their old enemy
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The ideas of the "Svecomans" were an important part of the public debate of the 1870s and 1880s that was evoked by the reinstatement of the
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and academics from other faculties besides the theological one. The spiritual leader of the Svecomans was the linguist
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between Fennomans and Svecomans in these decades also mirrored more general political divisions:
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at the end of the 19th century chiefly as a reaction to the demands for increased use of
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movement. The Fennoman nationalist movement had demanded that
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views received strong support among educated Eastern-Swedish.
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of 1808–1809, when it was ceded to Russia and made a
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1870s–1880s Swedish nationalist movement in Finland
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