Eurasianism and the Problem of the "Origins of Nations" : N.S. Trubetzkoy's ideas in the late 1930s and their reception

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  • Saito Shohei
    北海道大学大学院文学研究科博士後期課程:日本学術振興会

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  • ユーラシア主義と民族の「起源」問題について : 一九三〇年代後半のH・C・トルベツコイの著作とその受容をめぐる一考察
  • ユーラシア シュギ ト ミンゾク ノ 「 キゲン 」 モンダイ ニ ツイテ : イチキュウサン〇ネンダイ コウハン ノ H ・ C ・ トルベツコイ ノ チョサク ト ソノ ジュヨウ オ メグル イチ コウサツ

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The exact nature of N. S. Trubetskoy's (1890-1938) Eurasianism in the 1930s has been unclear because of limitations with the available documents and the sheer complexity of his linguistic research. Scholars have already examined Eurasianist views on political systems in Europe and Soviet Union. This essay moves the analysis to the opposite perspective. By examining the political usage of Trubetzkoy's article "On Racism" in Prager Presse and two editions of his article "Indo-European Problem" in German and Russian, it explores how the censors in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union viewed Eurasianism. Trubetzkoy's writings and his activities reveal that he intended to pursue neither the one and only origin of Aryan races nor the common origin of all human beings. Instead, he believed that various ethnic groups in Eurasia were connected anthropologically, linguistically and geographically. Ultimately, however, the ideological and authoritarian encirclement did not let this OmigrO linguist get away despite his will.

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  • Roshiashi kenkyu

    Roshiashi kenkyu 92 (0), 43-66, 2013

    Japanese Society for the Study of Russian History

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