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Eurasianism (Russian: евразийство, romanized: yevrazíystvo [jɪvrɐˈzʲijstvə]) is a socio-political movement in Russia and other former Soviet states, notably Kazakhstan, that emerged in the early 20th century under the Russian Empire, which states that Russia and the other Soviet or post-Soviet societies do not belong either only to the "European" or "Asian" categories but instead to a liminal geopolitical space bridging them called Eurasia. This is a further development from the Slavophile vision of the Russian Idea or Spirit, which influenced subsequent conceptions of the Russian world as a culturally distinctive Russian civilization, as well as the Byzantinist revision of this trend that celebrated Asian values. This expansive, supraethnic identity concept was developed via a qualified reception of Soviet nationality policy and Korenizatsiia that were formulated to combat Great Russian chauvinism. In certain varieties it resembles a proto-postcolonialism.