• DOI:10.1080/14690760802436142
• Corpus ID: 144301027

The Palingenetic Thrust of Russian Neo‐Eurasianism: Ideas of Rebirth in Aleksandr Dugin’s Worldview 1

@article{Shekhovtsov2008ThePT,
  title={The Palingenetic Thrust of Russian Neo‐Eurasianism: Ideas of Rebirth in Aleksandr Dugin’s Worldview 1},
  author={Anton Shekhovtsov},
  journal={Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions},
  year={2008},
  volume={9},
  pages={491 - 506}
}

• A. Shekhovtsov
• Published 14 November 2008
• Sociology
• Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions

Abstract Applying Roger Griffin’s methodological approach to generic fascism, the article analyses individual – socio‐political, cultural and esoteric – themes within Dugin’s doctrine, treating them as elements of a larger integral concept of rebirth that constitutes the core of Neo‐Eurasianism. The article highlights the highly syncretic nature of this ideological core, a direct result of the ‘mazeway resynthesis’ that has conditioned Dugin’s worldview. It argues that this process has been necessitated by his self‐appointed task of envisioning a new stage of history beyond Russia’s present decadent and ‘liminoid’ situation, one that he sees only coming about as the result of a ‘geopolitical revolution’. The variant of Eurasionism that results has the function of a political religion containing a powerful palingenetic thrust towards a new Russia and new West. In conclusion, it is suggested that the new order aspired to by Dugin could only be realised by establishing a totalitarian regime.