The Eurasianists (Russian: Евразийцы, Evraziitsy) was a political movement in the Russian emigre community in the 1920s. The movement posited that Russian civilization doesn't belong in the "European" category (somewhat borrowing from Slavophile ideas of Konstantin Leontyev), and that the October Revolution of the Bolsheviks was a necessary reaction to the rapid modernization of Russian society. The Evraziitsi believed that the Soviet regime… (More on Eurasianists)