Strong Eurasian national identity in an alt-Soviet Union?

This might seem like a rather abstract proposition, but I know that near the end of the Russian Civil War and the formal establishment of the Soviet Union, one of the names Lenin envisioned for the new multi-ethnic socialist state was the "Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia". This name would likely lend itself to the diminutive of "Eurasian Union" in common parlance, ironic given that the term is presently associated with Russian fascists like Aleksandr Dugin.

Without digressing too much, we know that in the late Soviet Union, there were attempts, chiefly by people like Khrushchev, to construct a single and explicitly multi-ethnic/multi-racial "Soviet" nationality. Of course, the word Soviet literally translated to council and more specifically workers' councils, so the idea of a "Soviet people" in the literal sense seemed absurd to some and was generally disregarded by around the Brezhnev era. But in this slightly alternate Eurasian Union, could the idea bear more meaning and value?
 
Lenin's original proposal to call the new Union the "Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia" https://books.google.com/books?id=iheBbViwVksC&pg=PA148 had very little to do with the ideology of Eurasianism. It was simply a way of avoiding use of the word "Russia" in the name of the new federation. So it would (1) embrace the European and Asian areas formerly included in the Russian Empire without using the R-word; and (2) leave the door open for other nearby coutries like Poland and Germany to join if they had successful Comumnist revolutions.

(This was a cause of contention between Lenin and Stalin, who told Lenin "If you think the nationalities of former Russia will stay in a framework of federalisation – that is understandable enough, but if you think that Germany will at some point come to you to join a federation with the same rights as Ukraine – you are mistaken. If you think that even Poland, which has taken the form of a bourgeois state with all its attributes, will enter into the composition of a union with the same rights as Ukraine – you are mistaken." https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/if-bolesheviks-conquered-poland.407915/#post-14031591)
 
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