Aleksandr Dugin

Aleksandr Dugin
Александр Дугин
Dugin in 2023
Born
Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin

(1962-01-07) 7 January 1962 (age 62)
EducationPhD in Philosophy at Rostov State University (Rostov-on-Don, 2000)
Alma mater
Spouses
Children2, including Darya
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionRussian philosophy
SchoolNeo-Eurasianism
Institutions
Main interests
Geopolitics, political philosophy, conservative revolution, sociology
Notable ideas

Aleksandr[a] Gelyevich Dugin (Russian: Александр Гельевич Дугин; born 7 January 1962) is a Russian far-right political philosopher.[3]

Born into a military intelligence family, Dugin was an anti-communist dissident during the 1980s.[4] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Dugin co-founded the National Bolshevik Party with Eduard Limonov, a party which espoused National Bolshevism, which he later left.[5] In 1997, he published Foundations of Geopolitics, in which he outlined his worldview, calling for Russia to rebuild its influence through alliances and conquest, and to challenge the rival Atlanticist empire led by the United States.[6][7][8][9] Dugin continued to further develop his ideology of neo-Eurasianism, founding the Eurasia Party in 2002 and writing further books including The Fourth Political Theory (2009).[6][4] His political views have been characterized as fascist or neo-fascist.[10][11]

Dugin served as an advisor to Gennadiy Seleznyov,[12] and later Sergey Naryshkin,[13] when they served as Chairman of the State Duma. He was the head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations at Moscow State University from 2009 to 2014, losing the position due to backlash over comments regarding the 2014 Odesa clashes.[14][15] Dugin also briefly served as chief editor of the pro-Kremlin Christian Orthodox channel Tsargrad TV when it launched in 2015.[16] In 2019, Dugin was appointed as a senior fellow at Fudan University in China. Nowadays, he is director of the 2023 establishment Educational and scientific center—Ivan Ilyin Higher School of Politics at the Russian State University for the Humanities.[17]

His influence on the Russian government and on president Vladimir Putin is disputed.[6] Although he has no official ties to the Kremlin,[16] he is often referred to in foreign media as "Putin's brain";[18] others say that his influence is exaggerated.[9][19][20][21] Dugin is known for controversial positions, such as his claim that fascist ideology is an inherent part of Western liberalism rather than Eurasianism. In line with this stance, Dugin portrays the Russian invasion of Ukraine as part of a holy war against "absolute Evil, embodied in Western civilisation, its liberal-totalitarian hegemony and in Ukrainian Nazism".[b]

Dugin's daughter, Darya, was assassinated in car bombing in 2022.[22] The assassination is widely believed to have been conducted by Ukraine,[23][24] though the exact relation of the assassins to the Ukrainian government is undetermined.

  1. ^ Lukic, Rénéo; Brint, Michael, eds. (2001). Culture, politics, and nationalism in the age of globalization. Ashgate. p. 103. ISBN 9780754614364. Retrieved 12 October 2015. Dugin defines 'thalassocracy' as 'power exercised thanks to the sea,' opposed to 'tellurocracy' or 'power exercised thanks to the land' ... The 'thalassocracy' here is the United States and its allies; the 'tellurocracy' is Eurasia.
  2. ^ Борис Исаев (2005). Геополитика: Учебное пособие (in Russian). Издательский дом "Питер". p. 329. ISBN 978-5469006510.
  3. ^ Burton, Tara Isabella (12 May 2022). "The far-right mystical writer who helped shape Putin's view of Russia – Alexander Dugin sees the Ukraine war as part of a wider, spiritual battle between traditional order and progressive chaos". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b Tolstoy, Andrey; McCaffray, Edmund (2015). "MIND GAMES: Alexander Dugin and Russia's War of Ideas". World Affairs. 177 (6): 25–30. ISSN 0043-8200.
  5. ^ "Russia: National Bolsheviks, The Party Of 'Direct Action'". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 29 April 2005.
  6. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference guardian-bio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Shekhovtsov, Anton (2018). Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir, Abingdon, Routledge, p. 43.
  8. ^ "A Russian empire 'from Dublin to Vladivostok'? The roots of Putin's ultranationalism". Los Angeles Times. 28 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  9. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference bloomberg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Multiple sources:
  11. ^ Burton, Tara Isabella (12 May 2022). "The far-right mystical writer who helped shape Putin's view of Russia". The Washington Post. Washington D.C. Retrieved 21 August 2022. In the early 1990s, he co-founded the National Bolshevik Party with controversial punk-pornography novelist Eduard Limonov, blending fascist and communist-nostalgic rhetoric and imagery; edgy, ironic (and not-so-ironic) transgression; and genuine reactionary politics. The party's flag was a black hammer and sickle in a white circle against a red background, a communist mirror image of a swastika. The party's half-sincere mantra? 'Da smert' (Yes, death), delivered with a sieg-heil-style raised arm.
  12. ^ Eurasian Mission: An Introduction to Neo-Eurasianism, Arktos (2014) p.26
  13. ^ Shaun Walker (23 March 2014). "Ukraine and Crimea: what is Putin thinking?". The Guardian.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference BBC 2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Benjamin R. Teitelbaum (2020). War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right. Allen Lane. pp. 155–156.
  16. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference reuters-bio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  17. ^ "Учебно-научный центр «Высшая политическая школа имени Ивана Ильина»" [Educational and scientific center—Ivan Ilyin Higher School of Politics]. Russian State University for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 20 February 2024. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  18. ^ Multiple sources:
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  21. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  22. ^ Barnes, Julian E.; Goldman, Adam; Entous, Adam; Schwirtz, Michael (5 October 2022). "U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  23. ^ Lillis, Natasha Bertrand,Katie Bo (5 October 2022). "US believes elements within Ukraine's government authorized assassination near Moscow, sources say | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved 18 August 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ "Russia blames Ukraine for murder of Putin ally's daughter". POLITICO. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2024.


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