Looking West from Russia: The Eurasianist Folly

... that concept. Incidentally, all that graphically manifested itself in the heritage left to us by our outstanding contemporary, Andrei Sakharov. Many believe that the father of the “new political thinking” was Mikhail Gorbachev. Indeed, that ... ... in the autumn of 1993 bred some very strong doubts among rather large groups of quite democratically-minded Russian society. Eurasianists who see Russia’s soul in raiders from the eastern steppes have always led their nation to danger and decay....