The Concept of a Passionarity of L.N. Gumilev in the Euroasian Context

The article is devoted to identi?cation of internal interrelation between the concept of a passionarity of L. N. Gumilev as a form of judgment of sociohistorical development of society and tradition of the Euroasian philosophico­historical thinking in Russia. The author considers sources of formation of an evraziystvo, his main ideas, a place and value of the theory of L. N. Gumilev in a context of the Euroasian social and philosophical heritage. It is emphasized that the priority of a social perspective and scale of civilizational self-determination forms social and philosophical measurement of the Euroasian theory and Gumilev’s position.