Modern Neo-Eurasianism as a Component of the Izborsky Club’s ideology: Assessments and Criticism

The primary aim of the study is to analyze the situation that has developed around the activities and ideology of the neo-Eurasianist current represented by the theorists of the Izborsky Club – one of the largest modern organ-izations of Russian nationalists, which constitutes an expert community uniting participants from various strands of the movement. The work emphasizes that the Russian nationalist movement has received diverse assessments regarding the neo-Eurasianist concept and the activities of the Izborsky Club from representatives of the expert community, as well as from some figures in the modern Russian nationalist movement itself. A substantial part of the analysis involves examining critical assessments of the modern neo-Eurasianist concept from the perspective of representatives of domestic and foreign historiography studying neo-Eurasianism (pri-marily that of A.G. Dugin) and, separately, the Izborsky Club. By comparing the approaches of A.A. Prokhanov and A.G. Dugin to the Eurasian question, the author notes a number of differences, which, nevertheless, do not constitute a fatal watershed in the interpretation of the general “Izborsky” ideology of these theorists. Under the new prevailing political conditions, the analysis of the modern ideology of Russian nationalism as represented by the Izborsky Club and the neo-Eurasianist concept allows for the conclusion that there is a need to update the assessment of their ideas and activities by both foreign and Russian expert communities.