Although Valery Vilinsky, a native of Odessa and a lifelong exile, categorically rejected Eurasianism and was convinced that Russia belonged to the West, his study Eurasianism, which he wrote for Peroutka's Presence on August 15, 1929, can now be used to show how wrong he was in good faith. For he described the essence of today's Russia in an almost exhaustive manner, with a lead of almost a hundred years.   Eurasianism as a manifestation of disgust with the decadent West According to Vilinsky, the idea of Eurasianism, no longer new, only erupted with new force among emigrants fleeing the horrors of civil war and Bolshevik terror. Left to their own devices by the Europeans, they watched "post-war Europe enjoying