Alexander Dugin's 1997 geopolitical manual — providing a strategic blueprint for Russian expansion through subversion of Western institutions, assigned reading in Russian military and political academies.
The subversion blueprint: Dugin's book is explicitly strategic. Its key prescriptions: (1) UK should be encouraged to leave the EU (Brexit avant la lettre). (2) Germany should be offered a sphere of influence in Central Europe in exchange for breaking from the US. (3) Ukraine should be abolished as a geopolitical entity and absorbed into Russia. (4) The US should be destabilized through support for racial minorities, anti-globalization movements, and isolationism. (5) The Middle East should be drawn into the Eurasian sphere through support for Iran and opposition to Israel. The book's influence on Russian strategic thinking is disputed (some analysts see it as influential; others see it as rationalizing existing policy) but it was read in Russian military academies.
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