Eurasianists about the October Revolution

Abstract

Eurasian thinkers were sure that the October revolution as well as the judgment on the Russia mutilated by Peter the First’s reforms, primarily determines the further ways of its progressive development. Severely criticizing communists, they highly appreciated Bolsheviks. In their opinions, Russia’s natural advancement has fostered not only forming bolshevism but its convergence with eurasianism. In connection with this, eurasianists approved the Soviet government which after the crucial break-off from the communism inevitably will contribute to the transformation from the bolshevik Russia into eurasian Russia. Proclaiming themselves adversaries of bolsheviks as well as successors of their deed, they thoroughly considered the problem of the third way of our country’s development. Assuming that radical bolshevism as well as anti-Sovietism were oriented primarily towards the borrowed from the West values but not towards advancement of their own fundamental ideas, eurasian thinkers sought for combining faithfulness to tradition with active innovatory tendencies. Herewith they were sure that consequently Russia will fail to manifest itself as a Western state. Performing a role of the colonial world chieftain on the historical stage it inevitably will lead the fight for its freedom from the European and Romanistic-Germanic yoke.