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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 out acknowledged social scientists and historians from intellectual and media debates. This parallel public discourse has been developing since the beginning of glasnost, 35 years ago, and became one of the determinants of Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2014. Varias tendencias para‐académicas en las ciencias sociales rusas ayudaron a preparar la guerra de Ucrania. Además de las campañas de propaganda y desinformación del Kremlin, una deformación intelectual de la élite rusa por las ideas maniqueas de teóricos como Lev Gumilyov y Aleksandr Dugin es en parte responsable de la creciente secesión de Rusia de Europa. El discurso público postsoviético se ha infectado con una variedad de teorías especulativas, a menudo conspirativas y, a veces, ocultistas o racistas. Sus defensores han desplazado a reconocidos científicos sociales e historiadores de los debates intelectuales y mediáticos. Este discurso público paralelo se viene desarrollando desde el inicio de la glasnost, hace 35 años, y se convirtió en uno de los determinantes del ataque de Rusia a Ucrania en 2014. 俄罗斯社会科学中的一些超学术(para‐academic)倾向为准备乌克兰战争一事起到了帮助。除了克里姆林宫方面的政治宣传和虚假信息活动,列夫·古米廖夫 (Lev Gumilyov) 和亚历山大·杜金 (Aleksandr Dugin) 等理论家的摩尼教思想对俄罗斯精英的智力扭曲是俄罗斯日益脱离欧洲的部分原因。后苏联时代的公共话语已经被一系列投机的、通常具有阴谋性质的、有时是神秘主义或种族主义的理论所感染。其支持者已将公认的社会科学家和历史学家排挤出知识辩论和媒体辩论。这一平行的公共话语自35年前开放政策(glasnost)开始以来便一直发展,并成为2014年俄罗斯袭击乌克兰的决定因素之一。
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Andreas Umland, 2023.
"Commentary – Historical Esotericism As A Cognition Method,"
World Affairs, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 186(1), pages 210-225, March.
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RePEc:wly:woraff:v:186:y:2023:i:1:p:210-225
DOI: 10.1177/00438200221135638
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