The book is intended for scholars and Eastern Europe lovers. The general purpose of the collection is to examine the relevant connections between three different Russian intellectuals border thinkers active in the European political life during the first part of the last century: Vladimir Zabughin, Aleksandr Kojève and Jean Gottmann from a Glocalist methodological perspective. The philologist Zabughin, the philosopher Kojève and the geographer Gottmann are representatives of an imperial Russian intellectualism who escaped from the motherland. They had all the opportunity to contribute to what is called the emigr'kult (the Culture of Emigration). From 1905, and even more so from 1917, the White Russia (Belaja Rossija) represented a multifaceted phenomenon of opposition to Bolshevism outside the borders of the motherland. Their common belief was a Glocalist perspective, something corresponding to an ideal of communities within virtual ideological, economic, theological, or spiritual intra- or trans-territorial. Glocalism interprets reality through the connection between major geopolitical scenarios and the trajectories of national or community subjects that have redrawn borders, identities, and models of power.

Renata Gravina, PhD and postdoctoral fellow in Eastern European History at Sapienza, University of Rome. She is also a research fellow at the Luigi Einaudi Foundation in Rome. Gravina is professor of Eastern European history at the Political Science Department of Sapienza, University of Rome, and a former professor of Europe and globalisation at the University of the West of France (UCO). Gravina has edited several collections. She is the author of a monograph on the emigration of White Russians to Paris, entitled Freedom out of Russia (2022), and editor of books such as The knots of contemporary liberalism (2025), Towards a New Iron Curtain (2024), a selection of Ukrainian writings entitled Luigi Einaudi: Reflections on Europe. Selected Articles on Society, Economy and Politics (2023). Among articles and essays she published: "Herzen and the Going to the People's Seduction" (2024); "Putin, Liberalism, and the Struggle Between East and West in Putin's Europe" (2023); "Geophilosophy of the Mediterranean and the 'End of History' in Aleksandr Kojève's Idea of the Latin Empire" (in The Mediterranean Question, 2023); and "The Belaja Rossija Yesterday and Today" (in Russia and the West, 2023).