- Neo-Eurasianism
Neo-Eurasianism ( _ru. неоевразийство) is a
Russia n school of thought, popularized in Russia during the years leading up to and following the collapse of the Soviet Union, that considers Russia to be culturally closer toAsia than toWestern Europe .The school takes its insipiration from the
Eurasianists of the 1920s, notably PrinceN.S. Troubetskoi and P.N. Savitsky.Lev Gumilev is often cited as the founder of the Neo-Eurasianist movement, and he was quoted as saying that "I am the last of the "Eurasianists "."Laruelle, Marlène "Histoire d'une usurpation intellectuelle: Gumilev, 'le dernier des eurasistes'? (analyse des oppositions entre L.N. Gumilev et P.N. Savickij" in Sergei Panarin (ed.) Eurasia: People & Myths, Moscow, Natalis Press, 1993 (Russian lang.)]At the same time, major differences have been noted between Gumilev's work and those of the original Eurasianists. [ "ibid".] Gumilev's work is controversial both for its scientific methodology (using his own conception of ethnogenesis and the notion of "passionarity") and for overtones of anti-semitism. At any rate, Gumilev's work has been a source of inspiration for the Neo-Eurasianist authors, the most prolific of whom is
Aleksandr Dugin .Gumilev's contribution to Neo-Eurasianism lies in the conclusions he reaches from applying his theory of ethnogenesis: that the peoples of the Eurasian steppe, including the Russians, but also the Turkic-speaking nomadic peoples of Central Asia, constitute a "super-ethnos" (a notion comparable to the "civilizations" that many authors have used to describe like minded groups of nations or cultures—such as
Samuel P. Huntington in hisClash of Civilizations . It should be noted that Neo-Eurasianists are fiercely opposed to Huntington's taxonomy of civilizations on the Eurasian continent).The idea of Eurasianism contrasts with
Konstantin Leontyev 's "Byzantism ", which is similar in its rejection of the West, but identifies with theByzantine Empire rather than with Central Asian tribal culture.ee also
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Russian philosophy
*D.S. Mirsky
*Nikolay Ustryalov
*Eurasia Party
*Arkaim References
External links
*http://www.cdi.org/russia/312-13.cfm
*http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~aphamala/pe/2003/galya.htm
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