The place of Lev Karsavin’s Eurasian articles in his creative heritage

The article is devoted to clarifying the place of Lev Karsavin’s Eurasian journalism in his creative heritage and the role of the philosopher himself in the Eurasian movement. Various points of view of Russian, Lithuanian, American, European researchers on this problem are analyzed in detail. It is proved that the majority of researchers did not work with the text of Karsavin’s Eurasian articles in any systematic way. The article consistently examines the works of Karsavin in 1925-1929 and his organizational role in the Eurasian movement. It is concluded that Karsavin’s socio-philosophical views did not change either before, during or after the Eurasian period of his life. With the consent of the leaders of Eurasianism, these views were framed in a number of policy articles and lectures in 1926-1927. It is found out that Karsavin was not the initiator of the split of the Eurasianists into the right and left wings, in 1928 he lived mainly in Kaunas and did not take part in the formation of the left Clamart faction. Karsavin was an active contributor to the Eurasia newspaper from October 1928 to May 1929, but did not share the attitudes of its left-wing editorial board and in his twenty articles did not go beyond those assessments of Soviet power and Marxism that were later given by right-wing Eurasians. The thinker was forced to leave the newspaper “Eurasia” when it became too “leftist”, and he set out his views in detail in his “Testament to the Eurasians”. Karsavin made unsuccessful attempts to help to end the Clamart split. So, Karsavin’s accusations of a pro-Soviet bias are erroneous