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Dugin's Neo Eurasianism

"I am a Muscovite, root and branch, I am pathologically in love with Moscow and the Muscovite period of our history. I am a consistent and radical opponent of westernizing, liberalism, the profane way of life."

Aleksandr Dugin, Pop Culture and the Sign of the Times (2005)

  • A theory that goes all back in the early 20th century.
  • Neo-Eurasianism is a postmodern expansionnist quasi-theory.
  • Political, sociological, philosophical, esoterical and religious ideology.
  • Conservative as well as revolutionary.
  • Open questions:
  • Is it just a trend ? Can it be considered a threat ?
  • Some answers: even if the term Eurasianism is very used in Russia, not everyone has the same vision as Dugin. His followers are mainly amongst intellectual circles. As for a threat, his vision is very much idealist.

Black-Hole space

Ultimate periphery of the world

Russia-Eurasia space

North American space

European space

Chinese space

Japanese space

Arabo-Islamic space

Hindu space

Central American space

Pacific space

South American space

Trans-Saharian space

Conclusion on Dugin's Neo Eurasianism

The Genesis of the Eurasianist movement

What is Eurasia ?

Who is Aleksandr Dugin ?

The Geopolitical aspect

"an army of empires"

  • Slavophiles, Symbolists and Scythianists.
  • The Inter-War Russian Diaspora.
  • Revival at the decline of the USSR.

The Eurasian doctrine

Eurasianism and Religion

  • Huge continental landmass which is composed of Europe and Asia.
  • Home to different cultures, civilizations and religions.
  • Eurasiatic ≠ Eurasianist
  • Born in Moscow, he was the son of GRU (secret service) officer.
  • Young dissident close to monarchists and nationalists in the 80s.
  • First joined Pamyat' in 88, then the National Bolshevik Party and finally formed the Evrazia movement.
  • Specializations in political science, religious studies and sociology. Speaks 9 languages as well.
  • Eurasian path is to create a decentralized federation of civilizations.
  • Ethnodifferentialism = "Heterophile but mixophobe".
  • Russia must resist to western globalism by launching a counterattack.
  • Fascination with fascism dogma and culture: order and authority, collectivism, enlistment of the youth, leader cult, "New man" ideal, heroic nationalism, esotericism, cultural myths.
  • Opposed to individualism, multiculturalism, egalitarianism and globalisation.
  • Dichotomy between East and West. Orthodoxy-Islam vs Occidental Christianity, Unipolar world vs Multipolar world, etc
  • World dominated by the Anglo-Americans Empire. Russia must resist to western globalism by launching a counterattack.
  • Need to find allies in different cultural poles: European Germany, Islamic Iran and Pacific Japan.
  • Rejects US hegemony, Dugin believes that Russia should lead the world into a new multipolar world.
  • Orthodoxy marks the specificity of Russia. Along with traditional Islam, Orthodoxy opposes itself against Western Christianity.
  • Orthodox spirituality vs Protestant ethic.
  • During the Second Chechen war, Dugin had to distinguish a difference between traditional Islam and radical Islam.
  • Dugin esteems paganism as a vector of tradition and spirituality, though he does not consider it a faith.
  • Ambiguous vision of Judaism. Believes that a "good" Jews should remain in Israel.
  • Condemns the Holocaust, though he admires the Nazi regime.

Evraziia's logo

Cover of the first scythianist review (1917)

The "Heartland" of Eurasia

The Anglo-American "World Island"

The Afro-European "Rimland"

The Pacific "Rimland"

The Arab-Asian "Rimland"

The Anglo-American "World Island"

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