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Griffiths, Edmund

Edmund Griffiths holds a Doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Research Fellow at Wolfson College from 2007–2014. He is the author of Towards a Science of Belief Systems (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism</a>

Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism

"Aleksandr Prokhanov (born 1938) is a prizewinning novelist and also, as editor of the weekly newspaper Zavtra, a leading figure in Russian ‘imperial patriotism’. Ever since 1991, when he signed (and reputedly wrote) the manifesto for the failed putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev, he has been an influential voice in Russian political culture—helping to turn the ‘irreconcilable opposition’ of the 1990s towards Empire, grappling with the difficult question of whether to endorse Vladimir Putin as a savior or expose him as a fraud, and promulgating a bewildering series of ‘conspiracy theories’ in which Russian and international affairs are explained in the most extravagant terms.