Pre-Eurasian Motives in Russian Social Thought of the Nineteenth Century: Intersections of Chinese Influence as a Far East Culture and Egyptian Influence as a Mediterranean Culture

Abstract

Without proper understanding of Russian pre-Eurasian thought of the nineteenth century, we cannot have a full picture of Russian Eurasianism as a political movement of the 1920-1930s. I analyse the ways in which Chinese and Egyptian cultural influence shaped pre-Eurasianism of Russian nineteenth-century social thinkers Vladimir Solovyev, Nikolay Danilevsky and Vasily Rozanov.