COMMENTARY–HISTORICAL ESOTERICISM AS A COGNITION METHOD:.

A Umland - World Affairs, 2022 - HeinOnline
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 …

Commentary–Historical Esotericism as a Cognition Method: How Russian Pseudo-Scholars have Contributed to Moscow's Anti-Western Turn

A Umland - World Affairs, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …