Publisher's Synopsis
The study deals with the Eurasian representations of political unity and their reflection in Russian literature of the post-Soviet period. The ideas of a unified Eurasian space are considered on the basis of the classic Eurasism of the 1920s and 1930s and its contemporary version using the example of Aleksandr Dugin, Aleksandr Panarin and Mikhail Titarenko. Furthermore, it is analyzed how the literature of the post-Soviet period relates to the Eurasian imperial discourse and which designs and counter-designs of a Eurasian empire it produces. Alternative Eurasian empires are examined using the example of the works of Pavel Krusanov, Chol'm van Zajcik and Vladimir Sorokin. In literary alternative histories and future versions of the Russian state, the diverse contradictions of Eurasian ideology are revealed, even in originally affirmative works.
