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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glebov, Sergeĭ, author.

Series:

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eurasian school--History--20th century.

Eurasian school.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

DeKalb, Illinois : NIU Press, [2017]

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FROM EMPIRE TO EURASIA

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Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION Eurasia's Many Meanings

CHAPTER 1: EXILES FROM THE SILVER AGE

1. From the Silver Age to Exile

2. Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetskoi

3. Petr Petrovich Suvchinskii

4. Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii

5. The Eurasianist Universe: The Others

CHAPTER 2: THE MONGOL-BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION The Eurasianist National Mystique

1. "We Are Alien to Debilitating Reflection": Eurasianist Generational Rhetoric

2. The National Mystique and the Search for Asian Elements: Fin- de-Siècle Influences

3. Revolution as Revelation: Religious Interpretation of Social Change

4. Mongols as Bolsheviks: The Compression of Time

5. Phenomenology of Revolution: "The Ruling Selection," Ideocracy, and the Future Eurasian State

6. Eurasianism and Fascism: A Reconsideration

CHAPTER 3: THE ANTICOLONIALIST EMPIRE N. S. Trubetskoi's Critique of Evolutionism and Eurocentrism

1. Remapping the World: World War I, Russian Revolution, and Reconfigurations of the Global Map

2. Europe in Question: Interwar Kulturpessimismus

3. After the Deluge: Russia as a Colony

4. Russia-Eurasia and Its World-Historical Mission: Leading the Anticolonial Uprising

5. "Hypnosis of the Words": Critique of Eurocentrism and Evolutionism

6. The Debate across Time: Eurasianism as a Critique of Russian Evolutionism

7. The World as a Rainbow: Religious Diversitarianism and Rebellion against Universalism

CHAPTER 4: IN SEARCH OF WHOLENESS Totalizing Eurasia

1. Paradoxes of Eurasian Nationalism

2. In Search of Cultural Wholeness: From Slavdom to Turan

3. Eurasia's Ukrainian Challenge

4. Geographical Pivot: Eurasia as a Geographical System

5. Eurasia as a Chronotope: In Search of Non-Eurocentric History.

CHAPTER 5: THE STRUCTURES OF EURASIA Trubetskoi, Savitskii, Jakobson, and the Making of Structuralism

1. A Forgotten Source

2. Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson

3. "Not Entirely Ours:" Roman Jakobson and the Eurasianists

4. In Search of Russian Science

5. The Empire of Language: Space and the Study of Structures

6. The Political Ontology of Eurasian Structures: Goal, Convergence, Evolution, Religion

EPILOGUE Eurasianism as a Movement

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Index.

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ISBN:

1-60909-209-0

OCLC:

1138029712