The book was translated because I am unable to find it in English online. This is not meant to reflect any endorsement of the content. I am interested in the historical and geopolitical relevance. I translated this to make a LaTeX and epub version for my Ebook reader.
The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia is a geopolitical book by Aleksandr Dugin. It has had significant influence within the Russian military, police and foreign policy elites[1] and has been used as a textbook in the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian military.[1] [2] Its publication in 1997 was well received in Russia. Powerful Russian political figures subsequently took an interest in Dugin,[3] a Russian eurasianist, fascist,[4] and nationalist[5] who has developed a close relationship with Russia's Academy of the General Staff.[6] Dugin credits General Nikolai Klokotov of the Academy of the General Staff as co-author and his main inspiration,[7] though Klokotov denies this.[2] Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, head of the International Department of the Russian Ministry of Defence, helped draft the book.[8]
Klokotov stated that in the future the book would "serve as a mighty ideological foundation for preparing a new military command".[9] Dugin has asserted that the book has been adopted as a textbook in many Russian educational institutions.[1] Former speaker of the Russian State Duma, Gennadiy Seleznyov, for whom Dugin was adviser on geopolitics,[10] has "urged that Dugin's geopolitical doctrine be made a compulsory part of the school curriculum".[9]
Hoover Institution senior fellow John B. Dunlop stated that "the impact of this intended 'Eurasianist' textbook on key Russian elites testifies to the worrisome rise of neo-fascist ideas and sentiments during the late Yeltsin and the Putin period".[1] Historian Timothy D. Snyder wrote in The New York Review of Books that Foundations of Geopolitics is influenced by the work of Carl Schmitt, a proponent of a conservative international order whose work influenced the Nazis. He also noted Dugin's key role in forwarding the ideologies of Eurasianism and National Bolshevism.[11] The book was described by Foreign Policy as "one of the most curious, impressive, and terrifying books to come out of Russia during the entire post-Soviet era", and "more sober than Dugin’s previous books, better argued, and shorn of occult references, numerology, traditionalism and other eccentric metaphysics".[2] In 2017, news.com.au said that the book "reads like a to-do list for Putin's behaviour on the world stage".[12]
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- docx split first to chapters and the to smaller files of approx. less than 100000 characters
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- convert to LateX
- Manual formatting
Since the document was sourced in docx format, many intermediate steps also required docx. The file format retains metadata including the software username, etc. Therefore, all of these intermediate files are removing from the git repository via .gitignore "documents/". However, a list of the context is shown in "documents_list.txt" to illustate the process used.
13.09.2009 Александр Дугин ОСНОВЫ ГЕОПОЛИТИКИ Москва, Арктогея, 2000
Все права на перепечатку текста учебника "Основы Геополитики" полностью или фрагментами, в бумажном или электронным виде принадлежат издательству АРКТОГЕЯ и Александру Дугину.
13.09.2009 Aleksandr Dugin THE BASIS OF GEOPOLITICS Moscow, Arktogeia, 2000
All rights to reprint the text of the textbook "Fundamentals of Geopolitics" in full or in fragments, in paper or electronic form belong to the publishing house ARKTOGEya and Alexander Dugin.
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