Spengler’s “the decline of the West” and the Eurasian “turn to the East”: dialogue, borrowing, dispute or conflict of worldviews?

This article examines the issues of the ideological foundations of the historiosophical concept of O. Spengler and the Eurasians, as well as the reaction of Russian emigrant thinkers to the Eurasians and the German thinker. The ideas of N. S. Trubetskoy, P. N. Savitsky, G. V. Vernadsky, P. P. Suvchinsky are analyzed, G. V. Florovsky and P. M. Bicilli, who participated in the movement at the early stages, are also mentioned. The article proves that there was no continuity or borrowing of O. Spengler’s ideas by the Eurasians, despite the fact that their concepts appear with a difference of several years and have much in common. The working terms of the historiosophical concept of the Eurasians are “personality” and “locality”, in Spengler - “soul” and “landscape”. The article shows that the philosophical basis of Spengler’s concept is German Romanticism and intuitionism, as well as religious pantheism, while the Eurasians put Christian personalism at the forefront. Russian Russian and Russian views are analyzed in the article, as well as the “prasymbol” of the steppe, which, from his point of view, had a key influence on the formation of the soul of the Russian people. The discrepancy between the real geographical landscape of Russia and the “prasymbol” of the Spengler steppe is shown.