Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia

101 Pages·2015·0.71 MB·English

by  Alexander Dugin

ALEXANDER DUGIN
Last War of the World-Island
The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia
LONDON
ARKTOS
2015
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First English edition published in 2015 by Arktos Media Ltd. (ISBN 978-1-910524-37-4), originally published
as Geopolitika Rossii (Moscow: Gaudeamus, 2012).
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EDITORS
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CONTENTS
Editor’s Note
Toward a Geopolitics of Russia’s Future
Theoretical Problems of the Creation of a Fully-Fledged Russian Geopolitics
Geopolitical Apperception
Heartland
Russia as a “Civilization of Land”
The Geopolitical Continuity of the Russian Federation
The Russian Federation and the Geopolitical Map of the World
The Geopolitics of the USSR
The Geopolitical Background of the 1917 Revolution
The Geopolitics of the Civil War
The Geopolitical Balance of Power in the Peace of Versailles
The Geopolitics and Sociology of the Early Stalin Period
The Geopolitics of the Great Patriotic War
The Geopolitical Outcomes of the Great Patriotic War
The Geopolitics of the Yalta World and the Cold War
The Yalta World after the Death of Stalin
Theories of Convergence and Globalism
The Geopolitics of Perestroika
The Geopolitical Significance of the Collapse of the USSR
The Geopolitics of Yeltsin’s Russia and its Sociological Significance
The Great Loss of Rome: The Vision of G. K. Chesterton
The First Stage of the Collapse: The Weakening of Soviet Influence in the Global Leftist Movement
The Second Stage of the Collapse: The End of the Warsaw Pact
The Third Stage of the Collapse: the State Committee on the State of Emergency and the End of the
USSR
The Białowieża Forest
The Unipolar Moment
The Geopolitics of the Unipolar World: Center-Periphery
The Geopolitics of the Neoconservatives
The Kozyrev Doctrine
The Contours of Russia’s Collapse
The Establishment of a Russian School of Geopolitics
The Geopolitics of the Political Crises of October 1993
The Change in Yeltsin’s Views after the Conflict with Parliament
The First Chechen Campaign
The Geopolitical Outcomes of the Yeltsin Administration
The Geopolitics of the 2000s: The Phenomenon of Putin
The Structure of the Poles of Force in Chechnya in 1996–1999
The Geopolitics of Islam
The Bombing of Homes in Moscow, the Incursion into Dagestan, and Putin’s Coming to Power
The Second Chechen War
The Geopolitical Significance of Putin’s Reforms
September 11th: Geopolitical Consequences and Putin’s Response
The Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis
The Atlanticist Network of Influence in Putin’s Russia
The Post-Soviet Space: Integration
The Geopolitics of the Color Revolutions
The Munich Speech
Operation Medvedev
Saakashvili’s Assault on Tskhinvali and the Russia-Georgian War of 2008
The Reset and the Return to Atlanticism
The Eurasian Union
The Outcomes of the Geopolitics of the 2000s
The Point of Bifurcation in the Geopolitical History of Russia
Editor’s Note
This book was originally published in Russian in 2012. Although the geopolitical
situation of Russia has changed considerably since then, especially as regards the
Ukrainian crisis and the subsequent outbreak of war in eastern Ukraine, Alexander
Dugin has made it clear that he stands by his original assessment and criticism of
Putin’s approach, and that only by Russia’s assertion of itself as a land-based regional
power in opposition to the sea-based Atlanticism of the United States and NATO can
Russia survive in any genuine sense.
Footnotes that were added by me are denoted with an “Ed.” following them, and
those that were added by the translator are denoted with “Tr.” Those which were part
of the original Russian text have no notation. Where sources in other languages have
been cited, I have attempted to replace them with existing English-language editions.
Citations to works for which I could locate no translation are retained in their original
language. Website addresses for on-line sources were verified as accurate and available
during the period of April and May 2015.
JOHN B. MORGAN IV
Budapest, Hungary, May 2015