Aleksandr Dugin's Transformation from a Lunatic Fringe Figure into a Mainstream Political Publicist, 1980–1998: A Case Study in the Rise of Late and Post-Soviet Russian Fascism

Umland, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.euras.2010.04.008

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“…Dugin is close to the National Bolshevik Party and Eurasia Movement, which is said to have inspired the traditionalism of Putin (Clover, 2016). Interestingly, Alain de Benoit and Dugin entered contact in the early 1990s, which led Dugin to create a Russian New Right journal modeled on that of the French New Right's publications (Umland, 2010). Here we see one major difference between someone like Bannon and elements of the European New Right.…”

Section: Russian Traditionalismmentioning

confidence: 94%

The European Intellectual Origins of the Alt-Right

Steinmetz-Jenkins¹

2018

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This article places the intellectual inspirations behind the white nationalism of the Alt-Right in a Transatlantic context. It does so by first focusing on the late 1960s and the rise of New Right Movements throughout Europe that sprang up as a response to the New Left, which involved a hatred of liberal internationalism and multiculturalism, a thorough critique of global capitalism, and, in one way or another, promoted an identitarian form of race-based politics. The pivotal New Right figure here is Alain de Benoist whose key ideas this paper will summarize. The paper then shows how Benoist's thought made its way into United States by the 1990s. I will conclude by unpacking a strange argument that it was in fact cultural Marxists, and specifically European émigré thinkers fleeing the Nazis, who provided a model for how the alt-Right could pursue a cultural revolution that would overthrow liberal understandings of race and identity

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Section: Russian Traditionalismmentioning

confidence: 94%

The European Intellectual Origins of the Alt-Right

Steinmetz-Jenkins¹

2018

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“…The nationalist right was deeply divided and had no coherent ideological stance or political programme. Andreas Umland tracked Dugin's subsequent trajectory 'from a lunatic fringe fi gure into a mainstream political publicist', as he phrased it, refl ecting a signifi cant shift in Dugin's access to media, to offi cials and to funding between 2000 and 2008 (Umland 2010). By 2004 Prozorov could note that 'the presently relatively low infl uence of Dugin personally should not be confused with his achievement in widening the space of legitimate political discourse to embrace formerly "extremist" stands' (Prozorov 2004: 63, n 202).…”

Section: Dugin Schmitt and Neo-eurasianist Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Russia's New Authoritarianism

Lewis¹

2020

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In this book, David Lewis offers an original interpretation of the Russian political system that developed under Vladimir Putin as a new form of authoritarianism. Lewis argues that the Putinist worldview challenged liberal beliefs about concepts such as sovereignty, the state, and democracy, and instead promoted a set of illiberal norms and ideas that contributed to a global backlash against liberal politics. The book uses the political thought of Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist and anti-liberal political theorist, to explore political developments in Russia in the first two decades of the 21st century. Case-studies examine how ideas of sovereign decision-making and exceptionality undermined the rule of law in Russia, producing a system of politicised, selective justice. A striving for national unity degenerated into a search for external and internal enemies. Russia’s democratic institutions were gradually hollowed out as Russia developed a form of “illiberal democracy”. The second part of the book uses Schmitt’s theories of international relations to study Russian foreign policy, including a detailed case-study of the annexation of Crimea, a new interpretation of Russia’s search for a sphere of influence in the former Soviet space, and a study of messianic thinking in Russian policy in the Middle East. The book is a detailed study of contemporary Russian politics, but also draws parallels between developments in Russia and the global growth of right-wing populism and authoritarianism.

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“… 39 Danlop 2010; Höllwerth 2010; Laruelle 2004, 2009b; Mathyl 2002, 2003; Mitrofanova 2005, 2009; Pakhlevsa 2011a, 2011b; Parland 2005; Shekhovtsov 2009a, 2014; Stepanov 2009; Umland 2002a, 2009c, 2010. …”

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Aleksandr Dugin's Transformation from a Lunatic Fringe Figure into a Mainstream Political Publicist, 1980–1998: A Case Study in the Rise of Late and Post-Soviet Russian Fascism

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

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