Chapter twelve starts with the discovery of Traditionalism by a group of Soviet dissidents including Gaydar Jamal (1947- ) and Alexander Dugin, and considers Jamal's and Dugin's first involvement in Russian politics during Perestroika. 

• After explaining the contribution of Traditionalism to Dugin's ideology of Neo-Eurasianism, the chapter discusses Dugin's political ventures. Whilst Dugin was active in the (not very serious) National Bolshevik Party, his Neo-Eurasianism cemented the "red-to-brown" alliance between the remains of the Communist Party and the "Patriots." 
• Dugin then founded a potentially more important group, the Eurasia Movement, a Kremlin-aligned think tank. 
• The chapter ends with a discussion of Neo-Eurasianism in Israel .

Further reading

• Stephen D. Shenfield, Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, and Movements . New York : M. E. Sharpe, 2000.
• Yitzhak M. Brudny, Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-91 . Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1998.
• Yaacov Ro'i, Muslim Eurasia: Conflicting Legacies . London : Frank Cass, 1995.

Suggested websites

• National Bolshevik Party
• Main site (in Russian)
• English-language site
• Arctogaia
• Main site (in Russian)
• English-language site
• Eurasian Party (multilingual)
• Analytical Group MAOF (in Russian; Israeli)
• Search the Catalog of Contemporary Traditionalism for "Russian" language

Other resources

• Babel Fish (translates Russian, after a fashion)
• Addenda
• Errata
• Additional notes to chapter 12
• See articles by Marlène Laruelle,
• «Le néo-eurasisme russe» Cahiers du Monde russe , 42/1. 2001 ( abstract in English)
• «Alexandre Dugin : Esquisse d'un eurasisme d'extrême-droite en Russie pest-soviétique» Revue d'études comparatives EST/OUEST Septembre 2001 ( abstract in English)