To get into the mindset of Putin and much of Russian society, I found an article by Gary Saul Morson in the February 22 issue of the New York Review of Books very helpful. Eurasianism holds that Russia does not belong to Western civilization. It belongs to an entirely separate civilization -- a synthesis of Slavic and Mongolian. Ukraine …
To get into the mindset of Putin and much of Russian society, I found an article by Gary Saul Morson in the February 22 issue of the New York Review of Books very helpful. Eurasianism holds that Russia does not belong to Western civilization. It belongs to an entirely separate civilization -- a synthesis of Slavic and Mongolian. Ukraine is part of "us." Its currently most prominent adherent is Aleksandr Dugin. "Dugin’s ideas—cited, recycled, adapted, and plagiarized—fill bookstores and saturate mass media." (More in my substack compilation post of Feb 2024.) Know thy enemy.
To get into the mindset of Putin and much of Russian society, I found an article by Gary Saul Morson in the February 22 issue of the New York Review of Books very helpful. Eurasianism holds that Russia does not belong to Western civilization. It belongs to an entirely separate civilization -- a synthesis of Slavic and Mongolian. Ukraine is part of "us." Its currently most prominent adherent is Aleksandr Dugin. "Dugin’s ideas—cited, recycled, adapted, and plagiarized—fill bookstores and saturate mass media." (More in my substack compilation post of Feb 2024.) Know thy enemy.
I will track this down and give it a read, for sure!