The geopolitical dimension of the Russia-West relationship in the concept of Eurasianism

Abstract

The article presents the concept of classical Eurasianism developed by Russian intellectuals in exile in the 1920s and 1930s. The author analyzes from the point of view of geosophy taken as a study of how people perceive geographical space. Eurasians in their works gave the geographical concepts legendary and mythical features. On the Eurasian mental map, the center of the world is Russia- -Eurasia contrasted with peripheral Europe, which is a hotbed of decay.