Black Wind, White Snow
Journal: Yale University Press eBooks
Year: 2020

A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin’s government in Russia Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times , here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of th