Russia in modern Eurasia: The vision of a Russian geographer
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2016
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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It is demonstrated that ‘Eurasianism’ as an interdisciplinary scientific doctrine and an object-focused area of
geographical social science is at its root, generally complementary to the methodology of Russian (Soviet) socio-economic
(human) geography, and corresponds to its research tradition. The geo-economic, geopolitical and geo-cultural
transformation of the post-Soviet ‘Eurasian space’ is analysed. The geo-concept of a multipolar ‘Mega-Eurasia’ is proposed
and justified. It is emphasised that the effective participation of Russia as one of the dominants of the Eurasian
space is associated with the non-admission of an extremely undesirable, harmful scenario for Russia as well as of its
possible marginalisation and limitation to the flimsy framework of the ‘Russian world’. A hypothetically possible commitment
to only one of the existing global ‘power centres’ is also considered to be a losing one.
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Eurasia, Russia, geopolitics, geo-economics, Mega-Eurasia
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 35 (2), 2016, pp. 71-79
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0137-477X