And it was popular in the 1920's, has had a huge surge of renewal in Russia in the last ten years under a man who has been on television a great deal by the name of Alexander Dugin. It is a form of geopolitics.
I think now they call it neo-eurasianism, but it is not new and neither is this thing with Putin and his asian buddying up.
Eurasianism was also highly popular with Stalin after World War II.