title: 13. Russian Perspectives on Eurasian Pasts
abstract: For the last three centuries, the ancient pathways running across the Eurasian steppe belt have fallen along the southern fringes of the Russian Empire and its proximate successors, the Soviet Union, and now the Russian Federation, as well as a constellation of post-Soviet states. There has been a long and robust research tradition about Eurasia within the Russian academic sphere -the intellectual space anchored in St. Petersburg and Moscow, but extending far beyond. The Russian school of resear