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"The American Empire Should Be Destroyed" Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

James Heiser

Over two decades have passed since the “Cold War” between the Soviet Union and the West ended. Many citizens of the former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact nations have embraced the opportunities which come with expanded civil liberties and economic growth, but extremists exploit nostalgia for the d...

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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.

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The foundations of geopolitics was a very popular book in the Russian General Staff Academy

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 52

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.

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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.

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