Post-Soviet Neo-Eurasianism, the Putin System, and the Contemporary European Extreme Right

Umland, Andreas

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“…Gumilyov's largely positive reception, even in parts of the Russian academy, has shaped the formation of partly bio‐ethnological post‐Soviet Russian civilizational studies (Bassin 2009). Some of his closed historical models are taught at universities (Bassin 2016; Umland 2017).…”

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Commentary – Historical Esotericism as a Cognition Method

Umland

2022

World Affairs

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A number of para-academic tendencies in Russian social science helped prepare the Ukraine war. In addition to propaganda and disinformation campaigns by the Kremlin, an intellectual deformation of the Russian elite by the Manichean ideas of such theorists as Lev Gumilyov and Aleksandr Dugin is partly responsible for Russia's increasing secession from Europe. Post-Soviet public discourse has become infected with an array of speculative, often conspiratorial, and sometimes occultist or racist theories. Their proponents have crowded out acknowledged social scientists and historians from intellectual and media debates. This parallel public discourse has been developing since the beginning of glasnost, 35 years ago, and became one of the determinants of Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2014.

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Commentary – Historical Esotericism as a Cognition Method

Umland

2022

World Affairs

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“…The connections between the Kremlin and the radical right parties have been explored at length (Polyakova, 2014; Schmitt, 2017; Umland, 2017). Studies have discovered an intellectual and ideological fascination among many European radical right parties with Putin’s Russia (Braghiroli and Makarychev, 2016; Political Capital, 2014).…”

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Fellow travelers or Trojan horses? Similarities across pro-Russian parties’ electorates in Europe

Snegovaya

2021

Party Politics

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Scholarship analyzing Russia’s influence in Europe has focused primarily on the supply-side of this relationship, especially on the links between the Kremlin and specific parties. Surprisingly few studies have focused on the demand-side. My paper fills in this gap. First, I compile a dataset of pro-Russian parties in the European Union and show that Russia-sympathizers are found across different (left and right) party families. Second, I demonstrate that supporters of these parties across different party families show stronger Eurosceptic attitudes than the electorates of mainstream parties. This finding explains the endorsement of narratives and policies indirectly favorable to the Kremlin by political actors whose electorates harbor Eurosceptic sympathies. It also sheds some light on the opportunistic rather than ideological nature of Russia’s influence operations in the European Union, which exploit opportunities presented in respective regions. In other words, these parties are the Kremlin’s fellow travelers.

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“…The various special operations include propelling Donald J. Trump to the White House and fixing the Brexit vote in 2016 (Snyder 2018 ). Putin’s Russia in this imaginary looms over an unsuspecting West, undermining democracy and supporting disruptive forces (Shekhovtsov 2017 ; Umland 2017 ). From this perspective, post-communist Russia is up to its old tricks, with the image of the Russian bear threatening the honour of a defenceless Europe dusted off from the Crimean War and the era of the great game in the late nineteenth century.…”

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Greater Russia: Is Moscow out to subvert the West?

Sakwa

2020

Int Polit

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Russia today is presented as out to subvert the West. The chosen means are meddling in elections and sowing discord in Western societies. Russia in this imaginary looms over an unsuspecting West, undermining democracy and supporting disruptive forces. No longer couched in terms of the Cold War struggle between capitalism and communism, this is a reversion to great power politics of the rawest sort. However, is this analysis correct? Is Vladimir Putin out to undermine the West to achieve his alleged goal of re-establishing some sort of post-Soviet 'greater Russia' imperial union in Russia's neighbourhood, to weaken the Atlantic power system and to undermine the liberal international order? The paper challenges the view that Russia is trying to reconstitute a Soviet-type challenge to the West, and provides an analytical framework to examine the dynamics of Russian foreign policy and on that basis assesses Russia's real rather than imaginary aspirations.

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Post-Soviet Neo-Eurasianism, the Putin System, and the Contemporary European Extreme Right

Cited by 22 publications

References 45 publications

Commentary – Historical Esotericism as a Cognition Method

Commentary – Historical Esotericism as a Cognition Method

Fellow travelers or Trojan horses? Similarities across pro-Russian parties’ electorates in Europe

Greater Russia: Is Moscow out to subvert the West?

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