Description
Featuring texts by Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Petr Savitsky, Petr Suvchinsky, George Vernadsky, Yakov Sadovsky, and Lev Karsavin
Translated and Edited by John Stachelski, Jafe Arnold, and Charlie Smith
With an Introduction by Rustem Vakhitov
328 pages / Released October 2024 / Available in hardcover, paperback, ebook.
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See also:
Foundations of Eurasianism – Volume I
Foundations of Eurasianism – Volume II
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A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals announced the discovery of a new continent they called “Eurasia”, a sprawling landmass wedged between Europe and Asia fated to upend mainstream Eurocentric narratives on history and civilization. The intellectual trend these diverse thinkers initiated came to be called “Eurasianism”, a school of thought which quickly developed into a movement, unsettling geographical and ideological borders, pushing beyond divisions between East and West, and innovatively bridging science, aesthetics, and religion. As this current took shape throughout the 1920s-’30s, its thinkers engaged manifold fields such as geography and economics, theology and philosophy, linguistics and anthropology, to elaborate an original perspective on the history and identity of Russia, decipher the dilemmas posed by “global Europeanization”, and trace new arcs in the ancient, modern, and future developments of cultural and geopolitical relations. Formerly a little-known curiosity of the fleeting interwar period, the first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen an explosion in the interest and relevance of Eurasianism in its classical and contemporary forms across diverse fields, from the pages of scholarship to the flash-points of geopolitics. While a growing number of scholars and analysts have increasingly emphasized the importance of understanding Eurasianism for deciphering current global trends, accessible translations of the Eurasianists in their own words have remained absent, until now.
The Foundations of Eurasianism series presents the key works of classical and neo-Eurasianism for the first time in English translation. This third volume presents a curated selection of the most pivotal texts from all three tomes of The Eurasian Annals, and includes an original introduction on the importance of these volumes to the Eurasianist tradition and the history of the movement.
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Table of Contents From the Editors and Translators – John Stachelski Introduction – The Eurasian Annals: The “Official” History of Classical Eurasianism, and the Real Story – Rustem Vakhitov At the Doorstep: Reaction? Revolution? – Nikolai Trubetzkoy The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues – Nikolai Trubetzkoy Toward the Overcoming of the Revolution – Petr Suvchinsky Ideas and Methods – Petr Suvchinsky We and the Others – Nikolai Trubetzkoy The Two Heroic Feats of St. Alexander Nevsky – George Vernadsky On the Turanian Element in Russian Culture – Nikolai Trubetzkoy To the Opponents of Eurasianism – Yakov Sadovsky Master and Domain – Petr Savitsky The Mongol Yoke in Russian History – George Vernadsky The Phenomenology of Revolution (excerpts) – Lev Karsavin