In September 2008, the sociology department inaugurated a new research project, to be headed by a new member of the permanent faculty: Alexander Dugin would run the Center for Conservative Studies. Launching the center, Dugin explained what it was not: “It is not a liberal intellectual group, but also not a Soviet-Marxist one.” Both the Soviet idea and the liberal idea that had followed it in Russia had failed, he explained. “And yet there is no conservative intellectual or academic center in Russia in the American or the European sense of the word. This despite the fact that both the people
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