Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Eurasianism Then and Now: A Russian Conservative Movement and Its Ukrainian Challenge

  • Chapter
Ukraine, the EU and Russia

Part of the book series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe ((SCEE))

Summary

This chapter deals with Russian Eurasianist views on Ukrainian cultural and political independence. During the 1920s Eurasianists argued that Russia was a separate world between Europe and Asia — ‘Eurasia’ — and that Ukraine was an inseparable part of it. Applying geographical, anthropological, linguistic, cultural and historical evidence, they claimed ‘Eurasia’ was an organic unity. On a high level of abstraction they imagined a new supra-national ‘Eurasian’ identity that would integrate all of Russia’s nationalities on equal terms. The Ukrainian example, however, shows that ultimately the Eurasianists perpetuated the pre-revolutionary Russian view of Ukraine as a ‘Little Russia’. Eurasianist ideas have resurfaced in post-soviet Russia and today are used to justify Russian hegemony over Ukraine.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Bibliography

  • Andrievsky, D. (1926) ‘Evraziistvo’, Tryzub, vol. 2, no. 40, 15.8.1926, pp. 7–12.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bäcker, R. (2000) Miedzywojenny eurazjatyzm: Od intelektualnej kontrakulturacji do totalitaryzmu?, ibidem Łódź.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bassin, M. (2003) ‘“Classical’ Eurasianism and the Geopolitics of Russian Identity’, Ab Imperio, no. 2, pp. 257–266.

    Google Scholar 

  • Böss, O. (1961) Die Lehre der Eurasier. Ein Beitrag zur russischen Ideengeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bussche, R. v. d. (1998) Konservatismus in der Weimarer Republik. Die Politisierung des Unpolitischen, Universitätsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg.

    Google Scholar 

  • Doroshenko, D. (1928) ‘K “ukrainskoi probleme” Po povodu stat’i kn. N.S. Trubetskogo’, Evraziiskaia khronika, vol. 10, pp. 41–51.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dugin, A. (2004) ‘Iushchenko: stsenarii katastrofy’, Rossiiskaia gazeta, no. 3655, 16.12.2004; electronic version: http://www.rg.ru/2004/12/16/ukraina-vybor.html (accessed: 17.1.2006).

  • Dugin, A. (2005) ‘Viktor Iushchenko kak zerkalo rossiiskoi geopolitiki’, Rossiiskaia gazeta, no. 3682, 26.1.2005; electronic version: http://www.rg.ru/2005/01/26/yushenko-geopolitika.html (accessed: 17.1.2006).

  • E.K. (1924) ‘Russkoe religioznoe zodchestvo’, Rul’, no. 970, 13.2.1924.

    Google Scholar 

  • Glebov, S. (2003) ‘Granitsy imperii kak granitsy moderna. Antikolonial’naia ritorika i teoriia kul’turnykh tipov v evraziistve’, Ab Imperio, no. 2, pp. 267–91.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heuman, S. (1998) Kistiakovsky. The Struggle for National and Constituional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hosking, G. (1997) ‘Empire and Nation-Building in Late Imperial Russia’, in G. Hosking and R. Service (eds) Russian Nationalism Past and Present, St Martin’s Press, New York, pp. 19–34.

    Google Scholar 

  • Izgoev, A.S. (1926) ‘Ukrainstvo i Rossiia’, Rul’, 4.11.1926.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jakobson, R. (1962a) ‘Über die phonologischen Sprachb ünde’, [1931] in: Roman Jakobson, Selected Writings, vol.1: Phonological Studies, Mouton, The Hague, pp. 137–43.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jakobson, R. (1962b) ‘K kharakteristike evraziiskogo iazykovogo soiuza’, [1931] in: ibid. pp. 144–201.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karsavin, L.P. (1925) ‘Osnovy politiki’, Evraziiskii vremennik, vol. 4, pp. 185–239.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karsavin, L.P. (1926) Evraziistvo (opyt sistematicheskogo izlozheniia) Evraziiskoe knigoizdatel’stvo, Paris.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krivosheeva, E. (1994) ‘K istorii Evraziistva. 1922–1924 gg’, in Rossiiskii arkhiv, vol. 5, Studia Trite, Moscow: pp. 475–503.

    Google Scholar 

  • Laruelle, M. (1999) L’Idéologie eurasiste russe ou Comment penser l’empire, L’Harmattan, Paris, 1999.

    Google Scholar 

  • Liberman, A. (1991) ‘Postscript. N.S.Trubetskoi and His Works on History and Politics’. in A. Liberman (ed.) The Legacy of Genghis Khan and other Essays on Russia’s Identity by N.S. Trubetskoi, Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor, pp. 295–375.

    Google Scholar 

  • Luks, L. (1998) ‘“Eurasier” und “Konservative Revolution”. Zur antiwestlichen Versuchung in Ru ßland und in Deutschland’, in L. Kopelev and G. Koenen (eds) Deutschland und die Russische Revolution. 1917–1924, Fink, Munich, pp. 219–39.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mann, T. (1983) Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen [1918], S. Fischer, Frankfurt a.M.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mitsiuk, O. (1930) Evrazyistvo, Nakladom avtora, Prague.

    Google Scholar 

  • Prymak, T.M. (2001) ‘Dmytro Doroshenko: A Ukrainian Émigré Historian of the Interwar Period’, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. 25, nos. 1–2, pp. 31–56.

    Google Scholar 

  • Riasanovsky, N.V. (1967) ‘The Emergence of Eurasianism’, California Slavic Studies, vol. 4, pp. 39–72.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rozental’, I. (1997) ‘Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii’, in Russkoe zarubezh’e. Zolotaia kniga emigratsii (pervaia tret’ XX veka). ‘Entsiklopedicheskii biograficheskii slovar’, ROSSPEN, Moscow, pp. 562–4.

    Google Scholar 

  • S.P. [ P.N. Savitskii] (1913a) ‘Kamennoe stroitel’stvo na Ukraine ot vremen Bogdana Khmel’nitskogo do vremen Razumovskogo’, Chernigovskaia zemskaia nedelia, no. 9 (10.5.1913) pp. 1–4.

    Google Scholar 

  • S.P. [ P.N. Savitskii] (1913b) ‘Kamennoe stroitel’stvo na Ukraine ot vremen Bogdana Khmel’nitskogo do vremen Razumovskogo’, Chernigovskaia zemskaia nedelia, no. 10 (17.5.1913) pp. 1–3.

    Google Scholar 

  • S.P. [P.N. Savitskii] (1914a) ‘Ob ukrainskoi vyshivke XVIII veka i sovremennom ee vozrozhdenii’, Chernigovskaia zemskaia nedelia, vol. 2, no. 24 (13.6.1914) pp. 1–5.

    Google Scholar 

  • S.P. [ P.N. Savitskii] (1914b) ‘Ob ukrainskoi vyshivke XVIII veka i sovremennom ee vozrozhdenii’, Chernigovskaia zemskaia nedelia, vol. 2, no. 25 (20.6.1914) pp. 1–5.

    Google Scholar 

  • Saltykov, A. (1929a) ‘Evraziitsy i ukraintsy’, Karpatskii svet, vol. 2, nos. 7–9, pp. 683–91.

    Google Scholar 

  • Saltykov, A. (1929b) ‘Evraziitsy i ukraintsy’, Karpatskii svet, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 718–27.

    Google Scholar 

  • Saltykov, A. (1930a) ‘Evraziitsy i ukraintsy’, Karpatskii svet, vol. 3, nos. 3–4, pp. 924–960.

    Google Scholar 

  • Saltykov, A. (1930b) Evraziitsy i ukraintsy. K probleme edinstva russkoi natsional’noi kul’tury, Tipografiia’ skol’noi pomoshchi’, Uzhgorod.

    Google Scholar 

  • Savitskii, P.N. (1924) ‘O religioznom zodchestve v Rossii’, Russkaia mysl’, vol. 43, nos. 9–12 (1924) pp. 471–3.

    Google Scholar 

  • Savitskii, P.N. (1925) ‘Evraziistvo’, Evraziiskii vremennik, vol. 4, pp. 5–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Savitskii, P.N. (1926) ‘Velikorossiia i Ukraina v russkoi kul’ture’, Rodnoe Slovo, vol. 1, no. 8, 24.10.1926, pp. 10–14.

    Google Scholar 

  • Savitskii, P.N. (1927) Geograficheskie osobennosti Rossii, vol.1: Rastitel’nost’ i pochvy, Evraziiskoe knigoizdatel’stvo, Prague.

    Google Scholar 

  • Savitskii, P.N. (1931) ‘V bor’be za evraziistvo. Polemika vokrug evraziistva v 1920—ykh godakh’, in Tridtsatye gody. Utverzhdenie evraziitsev, Izdanie Evraziitsev, Paris, pp. 1–52.

    Google Scholar 

  • Savitskii, P.N. et al. (1921) Iskhod k Vostoku. Predchuvstviiia i sversheniia. Utverzhdenie evraziitsev, n.p., Sofia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sériot, P. (1999) Structure et Totalite: Les Origines Intellectuelles du Structuralisme en Europe Centrale et Orientale, Presses universitaires de France, Paris.

    Google Scholar 

  • Struve, P. (1911) ‘Na raznye temy’, Russkaia mysl’, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 184–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • Struve, P. (1912) ‘Obshcherusskaia kul’tura i ukrainskii partikularizm’, Russkaia mysl’, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 65–86.

    Google Scholar 

  • Suny, R.G. (2001) ‘The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, ‘National’ Identity, and Theories of Empire’, in R.G. Suny and T. Martin (eds) A State of Nations. Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 54–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tarasiuk, B. (2006) ‘Evropi potribna Ukraina’. Interview of Ukrainian foreign minister Boris Tarasiuk with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29.10.2006: http://www.mfa.gov.ua/mfa/ua/publication/content/7295.htm (accessed: 3.11.2006).

  • Trubetskoi, N.S. (1921) ‘Verkhi i nizy russkoi kul’tury (Etnicheskaia osnova russkoi kul’tury)’, in Iskhod k Vostoku, n.p., Sofia, pp. 86–103.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trubetskoi, N.S. (1925a) ‘My i drugie’, Evraziiskii vremennik, vol. 4, pp. 66–81.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trubetskoi, N.S. (1925b) ‘O turanskom elemente v russkoi kul’ture’, Evraziiskii vremennik, vol. 4, pp. 351–77.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trubetskoi, N.S. (1927a) ‘K ukrainskoi probleme’, Evraziiskii vremennik, vol. 5, pp. 165–84.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trubetskoi, N.S. (1927b) ‘Obshcheevraziiskii natsionalizm’, Evraziiskaia khronika, vol. 9, pp. 24–31.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trubetskoi, N.S. (1927c) ‘Obshcheslavianskii element v russkoi kul’ture’, in N.S. Trubetskoi, K probleme russkogo samopoznaniia. Sobranie statei, Evraziiskoe knigoizdatel’svto, Paris, pp. 54–94.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trubetskoi, N.S. (1928) ‘Otvet D.I. Doroshenko’, Evraziiskaia khronika, vol. 10, pp. 51–9.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trubetskoi, N.S. (1935) ‘O rasizme’, Evraziiskie tetradi, vol. 5, pp. 43–54.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsygankov, A.P. (1998) ‘Hard-Line Eurasianism and Russia’s Contending Geopolitical Perspectives’, East European Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 315–34.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ukrainets (1911) [ B. Kistiakovsky], ‘K voprosu o samostoiatel’noi ukrainskoi kul’ture’, Russkaia mysl’, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 131–46.

    Google Scholar 

  • Umland, A. (2002) Toward an Uncivil Society: Contextualizing the Recent Decline of Extremely Right-Wing Parties in Russia, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Working Paper Series Series, nos.02–03): http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/papers/555Toward_An_Uncivil_Society.pdf (accessed: 17.1.2006).

  • Voráček, E. (2004) Eurasijstvi v ruském politickém myšlení: Osudy jednoho y porevolučních ideových směrü ruské meziválečné emigrace, Set Out, Prague.

    Google Scholar 

  • von Hagen, M. (2004) ‘Empires, Borderlands, and Diasporas: Eurasia as Anti-Paradigm for the Post-Soviet Era’, American Historical Review, vol. 109, pp. 445–68.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • V.T. (1927) [Vera Toll’], ‘Poniatie Evrazii po antropologicheskomu priznaku’, Evraziiskaia khronika, vol. 8, pp. 26–31.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Martin Beisswenger
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. CERES, Canada

    Stephen Velychenko (Chair of Ukrainian Studies) (Chair of Ukrainian Studies)

  2. Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

    Stephen Velychenko (Chair of Ukrainian Studies) (Chair of Ukrainian Studies)

Copyright information

© 2007 Martin Beisswenger

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Beisswenger, M. (2007). Eurasianism Then and Now: A Russian Conservative Movement and Its Ukrainian Challenge. In: Velychenko, S. (eds) Ukraine, the EU and Russia. Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287037_2

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation