Eurasianism as a concept emerged among Russian émigrés in the 1920s, with the premise that Russia is a unique ethnic blend, primarily of Slavic and Turkic peoples. Its geopolitical implications for Russia include gravitation toward mostly Turkic Central Asia. Alexander Dugin, one of its best-known proponents, believes that the demise of the Soviet Union was simply a tragic incident. The people of the former USSR should again be united in a grand Eurasian empire, with Russia a benign and generous patron, providing its “younger brothers” clients economic largesse and defense, mostly against the predatory USA. The “orange revolutions” and the rise of Russian nationalism, for whose proponents a restored imperial presence is rather marginal, indicate that Eurasianism—along with the dream of the resurrection of the USSR—is becoming less viable.
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June 2007
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May 29 2007
Dugin, Eurasianism, and Central Asia
Dmitry Shlapentokh
Dmitry Shlapentokh
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History Department, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, 1700 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN 46634, USA
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Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2007) 40 (2): 143–156.
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Dmitry Shlapentokh; Dugin, Eurasianism, and Central Asia. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 June 2007; 40 (2): 143–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2007.04.002
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