Explaining the Stances of the Interwar Eurasians towards Bolshevism

Abstract. The Eurasians appreciated the Bolshevik Revolution mainly because it revealed primal instincts, traditional imaginations, and cosmic forces of nature that could dominate a vast area of Eurasia. Thus, the Bolsheviks were treated as unwitting creators of the Eurasian Empire. The elimination of the Romano-Germanic world’s cultural influences on Eurasia and the creation of a new type of party, i.e., militarized, hierarchical, and homogeneous, were approved as well. According to the Eurasians, the Bolsheviks more or less consciously laid the foundations of Eurasia, considered a separate continent simultaneously constituting a geographic, cultural, multi-ethnic, civilizational, and increasingly political unity. Only one item is missing. It is the ruling of the Eurasian-Russian Empire through the conscious, ideological, and professing Eurasian ideas ruling class. Accordingly, only then will the story complete, and only then will it be possible to create a holistic Eurasian empire. These types of dreams and illusions about the lay salvation called apokatastasis are part of the totalitarian political gnosis.

Keywords: Eurasianism, Bolsheviks, ideocratic regime, Soviet Union, Russian interwar emigrants.