Two Forms of Russian Identity at the Beginning of the 20th Century

Abstract

European identity was identified in the Russian philosophy with the rationalism and individualism of modernity. In contrast to this conceptions were typical motifs of Russian philosophy, which emphasised the idea of salvation in "sobornost'" (A.

S. Khomyakov) and "mystic anarchism" (Vyacheslav Ivanov).

In the 2th century, the so-called Eurasianism formulated a new concept of the identity not of the Russian culture, but of the space controlled by the Russian empire.

Keywords

• Russian Philosophy
• A. S. Khomyakov
• V. Ivanov
• Eurasianism