Pyotr Savitsky: Co-Founder of the Euroasianist Movement
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 19, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
Seminar focused on the turbulent fate of Pyotr Nikolayevich Savitsky, co-founder and ideologue of the Euroasianist movement. Savitsky emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1921 but was taken away to the USSR after 1945 and imprisoned in the Gulag. After his return in 1961 he was also convicted in Czechoslovakia. We will also explore the inter-war Euroasianist movement and its significance today, in particular the philosophy of the founder of neo- Euroasianism, Alexandr Dugin.
The seminar will be helmed by Jan Dvořák and Jan Horník from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.