Key Factors of Evolution of the Classical Eurasian Concept

Eurasianism, is an idea which was emerged by thinkers like Trubetskoy, Savitsky, Florovsky etc. who left Russia after the October Revolution of 1917, has a vital place in Russian thinking system. The concept of Eurasianism which characteristically hosts political and philosophical codes gained the center of Slavophilism in a short time and has built a structure based on geographical determinism. This thought system, defining Russia as a separate civilization field from the West and East, almost become a fortress based on thought in front of the western hegemony and eurocentrism. Eurasianist thinkers argued that a middle way should be kept in Russia’s multi-ethnic structure protection and conservatism in the development and modernization of the state. In this context, penned in this page, the primary source of classical Eurasianism scanned and the main factors that made the evolution of classical Eurasianism was assayed.