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Book SynopsisThe Eurasianist movement was launched in the 1920s by a group of young Russian émigrés who had recently emerged from years of fighting and destruction. Drawing on the cultural fermentation of Russian modernism in the arts and literature, as well as in politics and scholarship, the movement sought to reimagine the former imperial space in the...
Trade ReviewThrough careful and insightful analysis of the lives and ideas of these Eurasianists, Glebov provides new perspectives on the Russian, European, and Asian influences that informed their thinking, how they argued over concepts, and how they dealt with the continuing existence of the Soviet state and, ultimately, fell apart. Highly recommended.
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While earlier studies have covered much of the same territory, Glebov's work stands out by virtue of the depth and the sophistication of its analysis. Perhaps most notable is the author's determination to contextualize Eurasianism by mapping it firmly onto the multiple intellectual, cultural, and political milieux-Russian as well as West European-out of which it developed.
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