Russian Eurasianism : An Ideology of Empire

"Using a wide range of sources, including academic and quasi-academic journals, pamphlets, books, and personal interviews, Marlene Laruelle discusses the impact of the ideology of Eurasianism on geopolitics, interior policy, foreign policy, and culturalist philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.

Marl+¿ne Laruelle is currently a research fellow at the Central Asia and Caucasus Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the French Institute for Central Asia Studies in Tashkent and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In Paris, she is an associate scholar at the French Center for Russian, Caucasian, and East-European Studies at the School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Eurasianism-Marginal or Mainstream in Contemporary Russia?	p. 1
The Historical Roots of the Eurasianist Idea	p. 2
Neo-Eurasianism and Its Place in Post-Soviet Russia	p. 4
Neo-Eurasianist Doctrine and Russian Foreign Policy	p. 7
Marginal or Mainstream?	p. 9
Premises of This Study	p. 12
Plan of the Book	p. 14
Early Eurasianism, 1920-1930	p. 16
The Life and Death of a Current of Thought	p. 17
A Philosophy of Politics	p. 25
A Geographic Ideology	p. 31
An Ambiguous Orientalism	p. 40
Conclusions	p. 46
Lev Gumilev: A Theory of Ethnicity?	p. 50
From Dissidence to Public Endorsement: An Atypical Biography	p. 51
"The Last Eurasianist"?	p. 55
Gumilev's Episteme: Subjecting the Humanities to the Natural Sciences	p. 60
Theories of the Ethnos or Naturalistic Determinism	p. 65
The Complex History of the Eurasian Totality	p. 70
Xenophobia, Mixophobia, and Anti-Semitism	p. 74
Gumilev, Russian Nationalism, and Soviet Ethnology	p. 77
Conclusions	p. 81
Aleksandr Panarin: Philosophy of History and the Revival of Culturalism	p. 83
Is There a Unified Neo-Eurasianist Theory?	p. 84
From Liberalism to Conservatism: Panarin's Intellectual Biography	p. 86
"Civilizationism" and "Postmodernism"	p. 89
Rehabilitating Empire: "Civilizational" Pluralism and Ecumenical Theocracy	p. 95
Highlighting Russia's "Internal East"	p. 101
Conclusions	p. 105
Aleksandr Dugin: A Russian Version of the European Radical Right?	p. 107
Dugin's Social Trajectory and Its Significance	p. 108
A Russian Version of Antiglobalism: Dugin's Geopolitical Theories	p. 115
Traditionalism as the Foundation of Dugin's Thought	p. 120
The Russian Proponent of the New Right?	p. 126
Fascism, Conservative Revolution, and National Bolshevism	p. 131
A Veiled Anti-Semitism	p. 135
Ethno-Differentialism and the Idea of Russian Distinctiveness	p. 138
Conclusions	p. 141
The View from "Within": Non-Russian Neo-Eurasianism and Islam	p. 145
The Emergence of Muslim Eurasianist Political Parties	p. 146
The Eurasianist Games of the Russian Muftiates	p. 155
Tatarstan: The Pragmatic Eurasianism of Russia's "Ethnic" Regions	p. 162
Conclusions	p. 169
Neo-Eurasianism in Kazakhstan and Turkey	p. 171
Kazakhstan: Eurasianism in Power	p. 171
The Turkish Case: On the Confusion between Turkism, Pan-Turkism, and Eurasianism	p. 188
Conclusion: The Evolution of the Eurasian(ist) Idea	p. 202
The Unity of Eurasianism	p. 204
Organicism at the Service of Authoritarianism: "Revolution" or "Conservatism"?	p. 209
Nationalism: Veiled or Openly Espoused: The Cultural Racism of Eurasianism	p. 211
Science, Political Movement, or Think Tank?	p. 214
Is Eurasianism Relevant to Explanations of Contemporary Geopolitical Change?	p. 217
Psychological Compensation or Part of a Global Phenomenon?	p. 219
Notes	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 269
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