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

Coordinate terms

• Duginism
• National Bolshevism
• Ruscism (a movement supporting Vladimir Putin and militarism)

Derived terms

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

Translations

Russian political movement focused on the geopolitical concept of Eurasia

• Finnish: eurasianismi
• German: Eurasismus
• Portuguese: eurasianismo m, eurasismo m
• Russian: еврази́йство (ru) m (jevrazíjstvo)