A Charged Polemic: The Ukrainian Question, Eurasianism, and Exiled Scholarship in the 1920s and Beyond
A Charged Polemic: The Ukrainian Question, Eurasianism, and Exiled Scholarship in the 1920s and Beyond

Summary/Abstract: This study and the accompanying edition of three articles from 1927–1928 is a contribution to the history of Russian and Ukrainian émigré scholarship and to the history of discussions about the specifics and independent development of Ukrainian science and culture, as well as a contribution to the history of interwar Eurasianism. The authors of the articles and the main figures in this controversy were the well-known Russian linguist Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890–1938), the founder of Eurasianism, and the Ukrainian historian Dmytro Doroshenko (1882–1951). The introductory study outlines the historical context of the controversy, its main ideas and roots, and its key protagonists. The last part of the introductory study shows the second life of the polemic and highlights its relevance today.

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