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Development and Transformation of Eurasianism during the Cold War : Research of Archival Documents
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Eurasianism, as one of the most prominent ideological movements of the Russian interwar emigration, has undergone a significant transformation in the last hundred years and, especially since the first half of the 1990s, has regularly resonated in the broader context of Russian intellectual thought and politics. Within academic research over the past 30 years, scholarly attention has focused on two main areas: interwar Eurasianism of the 1920s and 1930s and neo-Eurasianism of the 1990s. Although the research on both topics has produced many new findings, the relatively long period between 1945 and 1991 remained outside of the attention of most academics. However, despite the fact that the official activity of interwar Eurasianism ceased to exist in early 1930, some of the movement's leading figures remained active even after WWII and continued to promote and re-contextualize some of the Eurasianist key ideas. The present paper aims to present findings related to the development and transformation of Eurasianist historiographic and historisophic concepts in the intellectual milieu of Soviet academia. Research is based on the analysis of primary text and archival documents related to geographer P. N. Savitsky and historian G. V. Vernadsky (two representatives of the interwar Eurasianist movement) and their contact with ethnologist and historian L. N. Gumilev and other Soviet intellectuals during the period of the Cold War. The study introduces the concept of trans-Eurasianism to describe the intermediate stage of Eurasianism between the end of WWII and the collapse of the USSR. |