Abstract
The USSR, which promoted the ideas of social justice (the de facto impossibility of making money for creative individuals) and the brotherhood of all nations, collapsed at the end of 1991. It happened after the significant efforts of the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe to break out of this paradise of equality and fraternity and the finding of the command economy’s inherent inefficiency. In spite of the shift towards a free market and demoliberal orientation in domestic and international politics it was in the early 1990s that the resentment toward Fukuyama’s predictions began to operate in Russia and some neighboring countries. Several ideologists of obvious post-Soviet links, such as Alexandr Prokhanov or Alexandr Dugin began to contest the new reality putting forward the ideas of a new empire and the necessity to fight the liberal “mondialism”, the idea of globalization based on free movement of people, capital and ideas. The most influential trend is by all means Dugin’s Neo-Eurasianism, which generated the doctrine of a universal struggle with the West in the name of the balance between the conservative (Eurasian) Continent and the Atlantic forces, victorious in the Cold War and representing progress understood in terms of triumphant democracy and free market. Today’s Russian militarism is a desperate attempt to prevent globalization on American terms and replace it by a world dominated by several polars of power conducted by ideologically formatted autocracies.
Presenters
Joachim DiecProfessor, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński), Malopolskie, Poland
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Vectors of Society and Culture
KEYWORDS
ANTI-GLOBALIZATION, ANTI-GLOBALIST, RUSSIA, EURASIANISM, FAR-RIGHT, GEOPOLITICS
