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Behind the Bastards
This book by Alexander Dugin was extremely popular in the Russian General Staff Academy, and it was one of the things that shifted Dugin from a weird esoteric dissident to actually becoming a more influential and prominent pillar of the conservative establishment inside Russia. The book laid out Dugin's vision to divide the world up and calling for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances, all in heavy opposition to Ukraine as a sovereign state.
The foundations of geopolitics was a very popular book in the Russian General Staff Academy
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Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 52
This book by Alexander Dugin was extremely popular in the Russian General Staff Academy, and it was one of the things that shifted Dugin from a weird esoteric dissident to actually becoming a more influential and prominent pillar of the conservative establishment inside Russia. The book laid out Dugin's vision to divide the world up and calling for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances, all in heavy opposition to Ukraine as a sovereign state.
The foundations of geopolitics was a very popular book in the Russian General Staff Academy
In his seminal 1997 book, the foundations of geopolitics, Dugan lays out his vision to divide the world up and calling for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances, well all in heavy opposition to Ukraine as a sovereign state and a lot of Dugan's writing has been about trying to reconquer Ukraine and absorb it into Russia.