Aleksandr Gelevich Dugin (Russian: Александр Гельевич Дугин) (1962 - ) is a Russian scholar, political activist, and founder of the contemporary Russian school of geopolitics often known as "Eurasianism". He is often seen to be an advocate of National Bolshevism. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... Geopolitics analyses politics, history and social science with reference to geography. ... The Eurasia Party was registered as a political party by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on 21 June 2002, approximately one year after the Pan-Russian Eurasia Movement was established by Aleksandr Dugin. ... Flag of the National Bolsheviks. ...

Dugin was born 7 January 1962 in Moscow. His family had a military tradition, and his father is a high-ranking officer of the Soviet military intelligence; his mother is a doctor. Very early the young Dugin showed great intellectual skills and a predisposition towards foreign languages: indeed he actually speaks fluently nine languages. In the late 1970s he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute, but he soon left it for a job in the top-secret archives of one of the Soviet intelligence service, where he could study the papers of first Eurasianists.

Dugin worked as a journalist before becoming involved in politics just before the fall of communism. In 1988 he and his friend Geidar Dzhemal joined the nationalist Pamyat group. He helped to write the political programme for the newly refounded Communist Party of the Russian Federation under the leadership of Gennady Zyuganov, producing a document that was more nationalist in tone than Marxist. Communism refers to a theoretical system of social organization and a political movement based on common ownership of the means of production. ... The symbol of NPF Pamyat with the Russian swastika Pamyat (Russian language: Память, English translation: Memory) is a Russian ultra-nationalist organization identifying itself as the Peoples National-patriotic Orthodox Christian movement. History In the end of 1970s, a historical association Vityaz (Витязь), sponsored by the Soviet Society for... Communist Party supporters attend a May Day rally in Moscow The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации = КПРФ) is a Russian political party. ... Gennady Zyuganov Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов) (born June 26, 1944) is a Russian politician, and head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 1993). ... Marxs view of history, which came to be called the materialist interpretation of history (and which was developed further as the philosophy of dialectical materialism) is certainly influenced by Hegels claim that reality (and history) should be viewed dialectically, through a clash of opposing forces. ...

Dugin soon began publishing his own journal Elementy which initially began by praising Franco-Belgian Jean-François Thiriart, supporter of a Europe "from Dublin to Vladivostok". He also sought an alliance with Alain de Benoist although the Frenchman was discouraged by Dugin's vehement Russian nationalism. Consistently glorifying both Tsarist and Stalinist Russia, Elementy also revealed Dugin's admiration for Heinrich Himmler and Julius Evola, to name but two. He also collaborated with the weekly journal Dyen (The Day), a bastion of Russian anti-Semitism directed by Aleksandr Prokhanov. Convinced that National Bolshevism needed its own political movement Dugin talked his close ally Eduard Limonov into leading a new group and so the National Bolshevik Front was born in 1994. Dugin then became a prominent member of National Bolshevik Party, but he soon entered in contrast with Limonov and left the NBP to approaching first Yevgenii Primakhov, then Vladimir Putin. Jean-Francois Thiriart was a Belgian politician (extrem-right) and geopolitician. ... Alain de Benoist (born 11 December 1943) is a French academic and head of the French think-tank Nouvelle Droite (English: New Right). ... // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based upon that belief; above all, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is... Tsar (Bulgarian цар, Russian царь, listen â–¶(?); often spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English), was the title used for the autocratic rulers of the Bulgarian Empire in 913-1396/1422 and 1908-1946, in Serbia in the middle of the 14th century, and in Russia from 1547 to... Joseph Stalin Iosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 18791 – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a political leader in the Soviet Union. ... Heinrich Himmler â–¶(?) (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ... Image:Evola. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... Flag of the National Bolsheviks. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... The National Bolshevik Party is a political party in Russia adhering to the ideology of National Bolshevism. ...

The Eurasia Party, founded by Dugin on the eve of George W. Bush's visit to Russia at the end of May 2002, is said by some observers to enjoy financial and organizational support from Vladimir Putin's presidential office. The Eurasia Party also is supported by some military circles and by the leaders of the Muslim, Orthodox Christian, Buddhist, and Jewish faiths in Russia, and the party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve the Chechen problem, with the objective of setting the stage for Dugin's dream of a Russian strategic alliance with European and Middle Eastern states, primarily Iran. Dugin's ideas, particularly those on "a Turkic-Slavic alliance in the Eurasian sphere" have recently become popular among certain nationalistic circles in Turkey. The Eurasia Party was registered as a political party by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on 21 June 2002, approximately one year after the Pan-Russian Eurasia Movement was established by Aleksandr Dugin. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States since 2001. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин, â–¶, Pútin; born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and the current President of the Russian Federation. ... Chechen can mean: Chechen people, an ethnic group Chechen language Related to Chechnya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This is the disambiguation page for the terms Turk, Turkey, Turkic, and Turkish. ... The Slavic peoples are defined by their linguistic attainment of the Slavic languages. ...

One of the basic ideas that underpin his theories is that Moscow, Berlin, and Paris form a "natural" geopolitical axis, because a line or axis from Moscow to Berlin will pass through the vicinity of Paris if extended). Dugin's theories foresee an eternal world conflict between land and sea, and hence, Dugin believes, the US and Russia. He says, "In principle, Eurasia and our space, the heartland Russia, remain the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution." According to his 1997 book, The Basics of Geopolitics, "The new Eurasian empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us. This common civilisational impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union." Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: ▶) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Very important in his theories are the influences of Halford John Mackinder and Carl Schmitt, with their ideas of world's history as a continuous struggle between Land (tradition, religion, collectivism) and Sea (progressism, atheism, individualism). Halford John Mackinder Sir Halford John Mackinder PC (February 15, 1861 - March 6, 1947), was an English geographer and geopolitician. ... Carl Schmitt Carl Schmitt (July 11, 1888 - April 7, 1985) was a German legal theoretician and political scientist. ...

Dugin does have a healthy respect for Judaism. He is, however, anti-Zionist, which he regards as standing in contradiction to basic Talmudic principles. He also views Israel as a "strategic base for [the] militant Atlantism" promoted by the US and Britain. // Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ... Anti-Zionism is a term that has been used to describe several very different political and religious points of view, both historically and in current debates. ...

The last winter he has criticized the "Euro-Atlantic" involvement in the Ukrainian presidential election as a scheme to create a "cordon sanitaire" around Russia, much like the British attempted after the first world war. He has also criticized Putin for the "loss" of Ukraine, and accused his Eurasianism of be "empty". Now he has a transnational NGO called International Eurasianist Movement. The presidential election held in November and December 2004 in Ukraine was mostly a political battle between Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and former Prime Minister and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas. ...

Dugin's works

• Pop-kultura i znaki vremeni, Amphora (2005), ISBN 5942789037
• Absoliutnaia rodina, Arktogeia-tsentr (1999), ISBN 5818600033
• Tampliery proletariata: natsional-bol´shevizm i initsiatsiia, Arktogeia (1997), ISBN 5859280173
• Osnovy geopolitiki: geopoliticheskoe budushchee Rossii, Arktogeia (1997), ISBN 5859280181
• Metafizika blagoi vesti: Pravoslavnyi ezoterizm, Arktogeia (1996), ISBN 5859280165
• Misterii Evrazii, Arktogeia (1996), ISBN 5859280157
• Konservativnaia revoliutsiia, Arktogeia (1994), ISBN 5859280130

References

• International Eurasianist Movement
• English version of Arctogaia
• Eurasia Movement (UK)
• Article in the Financial Times about Dugin
• Eurasian Website
• Italian "Eurasia, rivista di studi geopolitici"
• Scholarly website on the Traditionalist movement, from which Dugin's neo-Eurasianism partly derives