Black Wind, White Snow

By Charles Clover,

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A fascinating study of the motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia

"Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery . . . Black Wind, White Snow traces the background to Putin's ideas with verve and clarity."-Geoffrey Hosking, Financial Times

"Required reading. This is a vivid, panoramic…

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Clover offers an extremely thorough account of the specific sources of Dugin’s ideology (“neo-Eurasianism”). See also Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, for a comprehensive survey of the various kinds of 20th-century lunacy kept alive in our own day by an influential maniac like Dugin.

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