Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
Eurasia's Many Meanings 1
Chapter 1 Exiles from the Silver Age 9
1 From the Silver Age to Exile 9
2 Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetskoi 13
3 Petr Petrovich Suvchinskii 19
4 Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii 26
5 The Eurasianist Universe: The Others 33
Chapter 2 The Mongol-Bolshevik Revolution
The Eurasianist National Mystique 39
1 "We Are Alien to Debilitating Reflection": Eurasianist Generational Rhetoric 42
2 The National Mystique and the Search for Asian Elements: Fin-de-Siècle Influences 48
3 Revolution as Revelation: Religious Interpretation of Social Change 58
4 Mongols as Bolsheviks: The Compression of Time 63
5 Phenomenology of Revolution: "The Ruling Selection" Ideocracy, and the Future Eurasian State 66
6 Eurasianism and Fascism: A Reconsideration 71
Chapter 3 The Anticolonialist Empire
N. S. Trubetskoi's Critique of Evolutionism and Eurocentrism 76
1 Remapping the World: World War I, Russian Revolution, and Reconfigurations of the Global Map 78
2 Europe in Question: Interwar Kulturpessimismus 81
3 After the Deluge: Russia as a Colony 83
4 Russia-Eurasia and Its World-Historical Mission: Leading the Anticolonial Uprising 88
5 "Hypnosis of the Words": Critique of Eurocentrism and Evolutionism 91
6 The Debate across Time: Eurasianism as a Critique of Russian Evolutionism 100
7 The World as a Rainbow: Religious Drversitarianism and Rebellion against Universalism 102
Chapter 4 In Search of Wholeness
Totalizing Eurasia 111
1 Paradoxes of Eurasian Nationalism 112
2 In Search of Cultural Wholeness: From Slavdom to Turan 117
3 Eurasia's Ukrainian Challenge 122
4 Geographical Pivot: Eurasia as a Geographical System 126
5 Eurasia as a Chronotope: In Search of Non-Eurocentric History 135
Chapter 5 The Structures of Eurasia
Trubetskoi, Savitskii, Jakobson, and the Making of Structuralism 148
1 A Forgotten Source 148
2 Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson 150
3 "Not Entirely Ours:" Roman Jakobson and the Eurasianists 152
4 In Search of Russian Science 157
5 The Empire of Language: Space and the Study of Structures 162
6 The Political Ontology of Eurasian Structures: Goal, Convergence, Evolution, Religion 169
Epilogue
Eurasianism as a Movement 175
Notes 189
Index 231