Senior Slavophiles and Eurasians: discrepancies and parallel

The article examines the relations of Eurasianism of the 1920s and early Slavophilism. Both the Eurasians themselves and their emigrant contemporaries often compared them with the first Slavophiles - A. S. Khomyakov, I. V. Kireevsky, brothers K. S. and I. S. Aksakov. Meanwhile, the analysis shows that there were significant differences between their views. The Slavophiles defended the Hegelian idea of world history, the Eurasians proceeded from the concept of local cultural worlds. The Slavophiles were monarchists, the Eurasians treated the idea of monarchy indifferently, in their main programs the question of restoring the monarchy was not raised, and the Eurasian jurist Alekseev generally argued that the monarchy is a pagan institution incompatible with Christianity. Slavophiles were supporters of the community, Eurasians advocated public-private economy and sympathized with individual entrepreneurship. They were brought together by their reliance on Orthodoxy, but the Eurasian doctrine of everyday confessionalism was far from the Slavophile understanding of Orthodoxy. At the same time, both trends certainly brought together the fact that they were against the Westernizing orientation of the Russian state, in the case of the Slavophiles initiated by Peter, and in the case of the Eurasians - by Lenin and the Bolshevik revolution.