Eurasianism

English

Etymology

Eurasian + -ism

Noun

Eurasianism (uncountable)

  1. (geopolitics) A Russian political movement focused on the Russian geopolitical interests in Eurasia.
    • 2020, Kåre Johan Mjør, Sanna Turoma, editors, Russia as Civilization, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1983:
      The third intellectual context important for civilizationism in post-Soviet intellectual production is Eurasianism—both the classical Russian émigré movement of the 1920s and the late Soviet and early post-Soviet “neo-Eurasianism” of such thinkers as Lev Gumilev, Aleksandr Dugin, and Aleksandr Panarin.
  2. (politics) A far-right movement and its ideology promoted by Alexandr Dugin, often seen as a Russian kind of fascism

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Derived terms

  • neo-Eurasianism (specifically the ideology by Aleksandr Dugin and the like)

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