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The Eurasianist movement was launched in the 1920s by a group of
young Russian emigres who had recently emerged from years of
fighting and destruction. Drawing on the cultural fermentation of
Russian modernism in the arts and literature, as well as in
politics and scholarship, the movement sought to reimagine the
former imperial space in the wake of Europe's Great War. The
Eurasianists argued that as an heir to the nomadic empires of the
steppes, Russia should follow a non-European path of development.
In the context of rising Nazi and Soviet powers, the Eurasianists
rejected liberal democracy and sought alternatives to Communism and
capitalism. Deeply connected to the Russian cultural and scholarly
milieus, Eurasianism played a role in the articulation of the
structuralist paradigm in interwar Europe. However, the movement
was not as homogenous as its name may suggest. Its founders
disagreed on a range of issues and argued bitterly about what
weight should be accorded to one or another idea in their overall
conception of Eurasia. In this first English language history of
the Eurasianist movement based on extensive archival research,
Sergey Glebov offers a historically grounded critique of the
concept of Eurasia by interrogating the context in which it was
first used to describe the former Russian Empire.
The Eurasianist movement was launched in the 1920s by a group of
young Russian emigres who had recently emerged from years of
fighting and destruction. Drawing on the cultural fermentation of
Russian modernism in the arts and literature, as well as in
politics and scholarship, the movement sought to reimagine the
former imperial space in the wake of Europe's Great War. The
Eurasianists argued that as an heir to the nomadic empires of the
steppes, Russia should follow a non-European path of development.
In the context of rising Nazi and Soviet powers, the Eurasianists
rejected liberal democracy and sought alternatives to Communism and
capitalism. Deeply connected to the Russian cultural and scholarly
milieus, Eurasianism played a role in the articulation of the
structuralist paradigm in interwar Europe. However, the movement
was not as homogenous as its name may suggest. Its founders
disagreed on a range of issues and argued bitterly about what
weight should be accorded to one or another idea in their overall
conception of Eurasia. In this first English language history of
the Eurasianist movement based on extensive archival research,
Sergey Glebov offers a historically grounded critique of the
concept of Eurasia by interrogating the context in which it was
first used to describe the former Russian Empire. This definitive
study will appeal to students and scholars of Russian and European
history and culture.
Between Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and development of
Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that proclaimed the existence
of Eurasia, a separate civilization coinciding with the former
Russian Empire. The essays in the volume explore the historical
roots, the heyday of the movement in the 1920s, and the afterlife
of the movement in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The first
study to offer a multifaceted account of Eurasianism in the
twentieth century and to touch on the movement's intellectual
entanglements with history, politics, literature, or geography,
this book also explores Eurasianism's influences beyond Russia. The
Eurasianists blended their search for a primordial essence of
Russian culture with radicalism of Europe's interwar period. In
reaction to the devastation and dislocation of the wars and
revolutions, they celebrated the Orthodox Church and the Asian
connections of Russian culture, while rejecting Western
individualism and democracy. The movement sought to articulate a
non-European, non-Western modernity, and to underscore Russia's
role in the colonial world. As the authors demonstrate, Eurasianism
was akin to many fascist movements in interwar Europe, and became
one of the sources of the rhetoric of nationalist mobilization in
Vladimir Putin's Russia. This book presents the rich history of the
concept of Eurasianism, and how it developed over time to achieve
its present form.
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