From empire to Eurasia : politics, scholarship, and ideology in Russian Eurasianism, 1920s-1930s / Sergey Glebov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glebov, Sergeĭ, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eurasian school--History--20th century.

Eurasian school.

Ideology.

History.

Learning and scholarship--Political aspects.

Learning and scholarship.

Relations.

Soviet Union--Relations--Eurasia.

Soviet Union.

Eurasia--Relations--Soviet Union.

Eurasia.

Learning and scholarship--Political aspects--Soviet Union--History.

Ideology--Soviet Union--History.

Russia--History--Philosophy.

Russia.

Philosophy.

Soviet Union--History--Philosophy.

Soviet Union--Intellectual life--1917-1970.

Intellectual life.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.

Politics and government.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

DeKalb, IL : Northern Illinois Unibversity Press, [2017]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Eurasia's Many Meanings

Exiles from the Silver Age

The Mongol-Bolshevik Revolution : The Eurasianist National Mystique

The Anticolonialist Empire : N.S. Trubetskoi's Critique of Evolutionism and Eurocentrism

In Search of Wholeness : Totalizing Eurasia

The Structures of Eurasia : Trubetskoi, Savitskii, Jakobson, and the Making of Structuralism

Epilogue: Eurasianism as a Movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Glebov, Sergeĭ. From empire to Eurasia.

ISBN:

9780875807508

087580750X

OCLC:

953792291