Ideological Seduction and Intellectuals in Putin's Russia

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Major Ideas of the Book -- 2 Putin Regime as Example of "Synthetic" Model -- Dugin's "Two Bodies" -- The Early Putin Regime: Restoration Without Restoration: Seduction and Mimicry as a Way of Survival -- The Nature of Restoration -- The Desire for Totalitarian Transformation: Transition to the Post-Yeltsin Era -- Putin's Rise and His Tasks: The Possible Scenario -- The Problems of Personal Loyalty: The Cultural Aspect -- Putin's Choice: Or Two Bodies of the President -- Putin's Choice: Between True Totalitarianism and Pseudo-Totalitarianism -- The Art of Seduction -- Dugin as Choice, and His Two Bodies -- Intellectuals and Elite in the West: Culture of Control -- Intellectuals in Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Eras and Their Relationship with Power -- Dugin as Soviet Intellectual and His Importance for Early Putin -- 3 Putin as Dictator Savior -- Dugin's Vision of the Country's Future -- Contemplating the Creation of OPOD Eurasia (Evrasiia) -- OPOD Evraziia -- Eurasian Party -- Providing Advice to Putin -- Dugin's Plans for Putin -- The Program for Building a Corporate State: Reality or Mimicry? -- Each Culture/Civilization Has Different Criteria for the Measurement of Economic Performance -- The Problem with the US Economy -- Western Socioeconomic Model Leading West and the Rest of the World the Wrong Way -- Russia/Eurasia: Spirituality Versus Productivity -- Eurasian Plan for Economic and Social-Geopolitical Arrangement and Imperial Design -- The Importance of Geopolitical Autarky -- The Economy of Empire Building -- Ambivalent Corporativism -- Duginism as Functionable and Mimicry Type of Ideology -- 4 The Popularity of Duginism: Duginism as Dream Come True -- Dugin as a Rising Political and Intellectual Star and Popularity in Russia -- The Views of Foreign Observers -- 5 Dugin as a Putin Rescuer.