Part 1 Asia and the Russians: Russian ideology and Asia historians and geographers Easterners and Eurasianists. Part 2 Russia's central Asian heartland Russia's drive south. Part 3 The heartland debate: Mackinder's concept of heartland Russia 1904 Mackinder and the Russian quest for a new center of gravity German geopolitik, Haushofer, and the Russians the heartland revisited - geopolitics Soviet perspective geopolitics and the Soviet Eurasian empire today in place of conclusions - what is Asia to Gorbachev's Russia?.
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Fierman et al. (1992) studied this question.