«Остров Россия» Вадима Цымбурского и геополитический проект «Большая Евразия»

Abstract

The article analyzes the original version of the geo/chronopolitics of Vadim Tsymbursky. Its theoretical basis was the understanding of Russia as a special “civilizational plat­form” – a country located behind the “Great Limitrof”. The consequence of this under­standing was the justification of the organic nature of Russia’s geopolitical movement to the North and beyond the Urals – in the direction of “difficult spaces” up to the borders of the Pacific and Northern Oceans. Whereas the advance to Central Asia and, especially, to the West, to the lands of the “Romano-Germanic civilization platform”, bordered by the limitrophic lands of Eastern Europe, has historically proved counterproductive, giving rise to fierce resistance to the “northern giant” from century to century. On this ba­sis, Tsymbursky interpreted the disintegration of the USSR as a return of Russia to its or­ganic state, linked the future of the country with the foreign policy of “flexible alliances” necessary for the internal development of the country: its “difficult territories” of Siberia and the Far East. These ideas turned out to be in demand by the domestic geopolitical thought only in the 2010s and were partially embodied in the geopolitical project of “Greater Eurasia”. The latter was the result of a change in the geopolitical and geo-economic configuration of the world, which stimulated Russia to turn from the unfriendly West to the East. But what awaits her “there, around the corner”? And won’t she find herself in the position of a “junior partner” in the big geopolitical projects of “Greater Eurasia” and cooperation with India and China initiated by her? In order to avoid failure in the Asian direction, Rus­sia needs to develop its own model of modernization of the country based on an alternative system of values to Western modernism, the development of science and education.