The article is devoted to the analysis of the Western interpretations and analytics of the Russian Eurasian tradition that some radical experts in the field of fascist studies seek to bring closer to the ideology of fascism, which was formed in the 1920s and 1930s and ultimately began to play a dominant role in European political discourse in the interwar period. The ‘civilizational’ and particularly ‘Eurasianist’ discourse has recently become a firmly integral part of the official political rhetoric in such countries as Russia, Kazakhstan and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Belarus. To some extent, the cause of this discursive turn can be considered the collapse of illusions associated with the expectations of the early 1990s that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, new Russia and other former Soviet republics could sooner or later fit into the new liberal world order. In fact, the words seem to match the deeds: the proposed Eurasian economic integration appears to be a decisive step in implementing this discourse, and seems to fit quite well with the theorizing of Samuel L. Huntington, who suggested that the most likely scenario for the reconstitution of international relations after the collapse of the Soviet Union would be a rise in the role of civilizational identities.