Snyder's account of Russian influence operations and the spread of authoritarian politics in Europe and America — centering on the Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin as Putin's intellectual inspiration.
The 'politics of eternity': a politics that replaces historical time (progress, change, improvement) with a mythological eternal cycle in which the nation is always under threat from the same enemies — disabling democratic deliberation. Ivan Ilyin: a Russian fascist philosopher whom Putin cites and whose ideas structure Russian political mythology. The 2014 Ukraine war and 2016 US election as episodes in Russia's politics of eternity.
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