Between Europe and Asia : the origins, theories, and legacies of Russian Eurasianism / edited by Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov & Marlene Laruelle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bassin, Mark, editor.

Glebov, Sergeĭ, editor.

Laruelle, Marlène, editor.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Philosophy.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991---Philosophy.

Russia (Federation).

Post-communism--Russia (Federation).

Post-communism.

Geopolitics.

Physical Description:

vi, 267 pages.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

Summary:

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 the 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 has now become one of the sources of the rhetoric of nationalist mobilization in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Revolutionary and the Empire: Alexander Herzen and Russian Discourse on Asia / Olga Maiorova Maiorova, Olga 13

2 The Eurasians and Liberal Scholarship of the Late Imperial Period: Continuity and Change across the 1917 Divide / Vera Tolz Tolz, Vera 27

3 N. S. Trubetskoi's Europe and Mankind and Eurasian Antievolutionism: One Unknown Source / Sergey Glebov Glebov, Sergey 48

4 Conceiving the Territory: Eurasianism as a Geographical Ideology / Marlene Laruelle Laruelle, Marlene 68

5 Eurasianism as a Form of Popperian Historicism? / Stefan Wiederkehr Wiederkehr, Stefan 84

6 Metaphysics of the Economy: The Religious and Economic Foundations of P. N. Savitskii's Eurasianism / Martin Beisswenger Beisswenger, Martin 97

7 Becoming Eurasian: The Intellectual Odyssey of Georgii Vladimirovich Vernadsky / Igor Torbakov Torbakov, Igor 113

8 Spatializing the Sign: The Futurist Eurasianism of Roman Jakobson and Velimir Khlebniko / Harsha Ram Ram, Harsha 137

9 Eurasianism Goes Japanese: Toward a Global History of a Russian Intellectual Movement / Hama Yukiko Yukiko, Hama 150

10 Narrative Kulikovo: Lev Gumilev, Russian Nationalists, and the Troubled Emergence of Neo-Eurasianism / Mark Bassin Bassin, Mark 165.

ISBN:

9780822963660

0822963663

OCLC:

898165740