Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2020. № 2 (34). P. 98—111
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
UDC 93/94
Bystryukov Vladimir Yuryevich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education
EURASIAN IDEOCRACY OF K. A. CHKHEIDZE
Abstract
The Eurasian movement that emerged after the revolution of 1917 in the environment of Russian emigration included a large number of representatives of the intellectual elite. Konstantin Aleksandrovich Chkheidze, the Secretary of P. N. Savitsky was one of them. He entered the movement in the mid-1920s and gradually became an active participant, performing a significant amount of various arrangement activities. His status and authority were determined by the fact that his works in historiography certainly belong to the Eurasian branch. However, the analysis shows that sometimes his interpretation of Eurasian ideas differed from the views of P. N. Savitsky or N. S. Trubetskoy. These two leaders of Eurasianism were also dubious about Chkheidze’s ideas on the convergence of Eurasianism and the Philosophy of common cause by N. F. Fedorov. The ideas of K. A. Chkheidze reflected the complexity and inconsistency of the Eurasian ideology itself.
Key words
Eurasian movement, Russia-Eurasia, “local development”, Eurasianism, Philosophy of common cause, K. A. Chkheidze.
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Bystryukov V. Yu. Eurasian ideocracy of K. A. Chkheidze. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2020, no. 2 (34), pp. 98—111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2020.34.9.