Philosophical and Geographical Works

The book "Philosophical and Geographical Works" by the founder and ideologist of Eurasianism, an outstanding thinker, geographer, historian, and economist Pyotr Nikolayevich Savitsky (1895 – 1968) is timed to his 130th anniversary and presents the system of views of the thinker embodied in a number of works. The work "Russian Philosophy in the Pre-Revolutionary Period," published for the first time in Russian, reveals his historical and philosophical views and preferences. The monograph "Geographical Features of Russia" has not been reissued for almost a hundred years. For the first time, the work "Geographical Overview of Russia-Eurasia" is being published in full. Savitsky conceived it as a brief summary of his geographical, theosophical, and historiographical views.
According to Savitsky, Russia as such begins with the reunification with Ukraine, with the ascension of Peter the Great, with the great Russian expeditions – Arctic and round-the-world, when the Russians opened Alexander I Land (Antarctica), surveyed the shores of the Arctic Ocean, mastered the Far East, and conquered Turkestan. Only from this moment do we deal with Russia-Eurasia, which entered into new and modern history as a great power. Savitsky advocated for the economic, political, and cultural specific positioning of Russia, for the independence of its path, and for the absence of Western adoration. He saw the main danger to Russian culture in the feeling of its secondary nature, almost second-classness, in the desire of the Russian elites to abandon their own unique Eurasian path. The main "helper" of such self-deprecation among Russians he considered ignorance – the lack of knowledge of the geography, history, and culture of their country, and a misunderstanding of its specifics.
The book is accompanied by a specially prepared introductory article and extensive comments and is addressed to philosophers, specialists in geography and history, and a circle of interested readers.