In search of an imperial identity
Subtitle: Eurasianism in contemporary Russia
By: Marlène Laruelle ; translated from the French by Mischa Gabowitsch.
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780801890734
Subjects: Eurasian school; Post-communism -- Russia (Federation); Geopolitics; Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- -- Philosophy
Work titles: Quête d'une identité impériale.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Eurasianism-marginal or mainstream in contemporary Russia?; title: Early Eurasianism, 1920-1930; title: Lev Gumilëv : a theory of ethnicity?; title: Aleksandr Panarin : philosophy of history and the revival of culturalism; title: Aleksandr Dugin : a Russian version of the European radical right?; title: The view from "within" : non-Russian neo-Eurasianism and Islam; title: Neo-Eurasianism in Kazakhstan and Turkey.