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This article focuses on the thought of the intellectual, art critic and musicologist Petr Suvchinskii, a founding member of interwar Eurasianism. It reconstructs the main points of Suvchinskii's personal Eurasianist philosophy of history, and analyses the special place that his friend and collaborator Igor Stravinsku held in it. Suvchinskii's views are put into the context of the broader intellectual milieu (the ideas of Henri Bergson, the Prague Linguistic Circle, Russian religious thinkers and Mikhail Bakhtin), and their affinity with Eurasianist 'structuralism' is explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the statements of contemporary Russian Old Believer elites on political, foreign policy, inter-confessional relations, economic and ideological issues to make two types of comparisons. First, the juxtaposition of contemporary Old Believer public discourse against reported pre-revolutionary Old Believer value orientations reveals an intriguing historical discontinuity. Contrary to the literature and my initial hypothesis, the collected data show consistent patterns of anti-market, anti-democratic, illiberal, intolerant and anti-Western attitudes common to all concords analysed in this study. Next, the analysis demonstrates a remarkable similarity between social and political preferences of modern Old Believer and Russian Orthodox authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]