By Dmitry Shlapentokh
ISBN-10: 9004154159
ISBN-13: 9789004154155
ISBN-10: 9047419006
ISBN-13: 9789047419006
All through so much of Russian heritage, perspectives of who the Russians are have ruled the minds of Russian intellectuals. Westerners assumed that Russia used to be a part of the West, when Slavophiles observed Russia as a part of a Slavic civilization. at the moment, it truly is Eurasianism that has emerged because the paradigm that has made makes an attempt to put Russia in a extensive civilizational context and it has lately develop into the single achievable doctrine that's capable of give you the very ideological justification for Russia's life as a multiethnic nation. Eurasians assert that Russia is a civilization in its personal correct, a special mixture of Slavic and non-Slavic, more often than not Turkic, humans. whereas it's one of many vital ideological developments in present-day Russia, Eurasianism, with its origins between Russian emigrants within the Nineteen Twenties, has a protracted background. putting Eurasianism in a vast context, this publication covers the origins of Eurasianism, dwells on Eurasianism's significant philosophical paradigms, and locations Eurasianism within the context of the improvement of Polish and Turkish inspiration. the ultimate half bargains with the trendy amendment of Eurasianism. The publication is of serious relevance to those that have an interest in Russian/European and Asian historical past sector reviews.
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For Eurasianism, the first and fundamental affirmation in our relations with Orient is the conviction in its autonomous value as another type of culture, whose knowledge is all the more necessary for the Russian conscience since it permits our auto-conscience . . [because] the Orient for Russia is not exotic or foreign” (Nikitin 1928: 5). In the first Eurasianist compilation, Savitskii revealed the fundamental paradox of Eurasianism: Russia was already the Orient. Therefore, it The Orient in Russian Thought at the Turn of the Century • 35 could not “go” toward the Orient, but must become more precisely aware of its internal orientality (Savitskii 1921: 1).
Relations with Asia weakened Eurasianist thought on the structural unity of the Eurasianist totality: this one was geographically and linguistically presented as enclosed, closed on itself. Actually, two types of relations existed with the non-Eurasian world: total impermeability and discontinuity between Eurasia and Europe, and permeability between Eurasia and Asia. Relations between the latter two hesitated between continuity and discontinuity. The mythified notion of “Orient” permitted a tie to a certain metaphysics and absolute social cult.
Between 1910 and 1913 he stayed several times in the Caucasus and gave lectures at Tbilisi about Caucasian language philology, in particular about the Ossete language. In 1912 he got a chair at the university. An active member of the linguistic circle of Moscow, Trubetskoi didn’t limit himself to linguistics and literature but widened his researches to mythology, folklore, and ethnography. His first publications announced his future Eurasianist interests: linguistics and folklore, oriental languages of the Empire, Slavism.
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