Problems of Eurasianism in Italian historiography through the prism of L. Gumilev’s oeuvre

Abstract

This publication represents the review of the book of the Italian researcher Dario Chitati «La passione dell’Eurasia. Storia e civilta in Lev Gumilёv», come out in 2015 in Milan. On the basis of critical approach to creativity of L. Gumilyov and analysis of the main works of the Russian scientist the author in details describes history of eurasianism as ideological movement and Eurasia as special subcontinent. The civilization method of the research allows to understand better approaches of the Italian scientist to a research problem. Dario Chitati builds the polemic with L. Gumilyov mainly on the basis of the analysis «The steppe trilogy...» and «Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere of Earth», revealing approaches of the Russian scientist to eurasianism problem from the point of view of geographer and turcologist, does broad retreats in classical and neo-eurasianism that undoubtedly is of great interest to the Kazakhstani reader. Kazakhstan where the ideas of eurasianism are extremely popular, builds one of vectors of the foreign policy on the basis of eurasianism. Eurasian doctrine of our president is aimed at equal economic integration of the people of the Eurasian space having common history and culture. The new book of Dario Chitati devoted to history of eurasianism and creativity of L. Gumilyov will make a bigger contribution to judgment of eurasianism.
Key words: eurasianism, neo-eurasianism, nomadic people, ethnogenesis, passionate theory of ethnogenesis, biosphere of Earth