Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia by Alexander Dugin

Author:Alexander Dugin [Dugin, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Arktos
Published: 2015-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

The Third Stage of the Collapse: the State Committee on the State of Emergency and the End of the USSR

This dissolution was evidently planned for June 1990, when the majority of Soviet Republics in the USSR, including the RSFSR, proclaimed their sovereignty. But if all other Soviet republics put autonomy from the center and the possibility of moving toward statehood into their concepts of sovereignty, the sovereignty of Russia had a more ambiguous meaning, as it proposed autonomy from the center of the government whose core was Russia. It meant Russia’s declaration of liberation from itself. This gesture was based on a domestic policy struggle between the leadership of the RSFSR, led by Yeltsin, and the leadership of the USSR, led by Gorbachev. But the fate of the government itself was put at stake in this opposition.

By June 1991, it became clear that the process of granting autonomy to the Soviet republics was gaining momentum, and their leaders raised the question of signing a new Union treaty, which would have converted them into independent and sovereign governments. Using the formal mechanisms of the Constitution of the USSR, the heads of the Soviet republics, while deciding their domestic policy goals, strove to use the weakness and blindness of the Union’s center for their own interests.

The summer of 1991 passed in preparation for the denouement. It came on August 19, 1991, when a group of high-ranking Soviet leaders — the Vice-President of the USSR, G. I. Yanayev; the Minister of Defense, D. T. Yazov; the Chairman of the KGB of the USSR, V. A. Kryuchkov; the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR, B. K. Pugo; the Prime Minister of the USSR, V. S. Pavlov, and others — executed a coup for the prevention of the dissolution of the USSR. This event entered history under the name of “the 1991 August Coup.” Gorbachev was placed under house arrest at his Crimean dacha in Foros, where he was vacationing. The leadership of the RSFSR was put under siege in the Parliament (the “White House”). Geopolitically, the group that had performed the coup was acting in the interests of the Heartland and attempted to prevent the collapse of the USSR, which was becoming inevitable given the continuation of the policies of Gorbachev and his circle, and of Yeltsin, despite the quarrels between them. Gorbachev did not make any effective efforts to preserve the USSR, and Yeltsin did all he could to get his share of power in the country, risking its complete fragmentation. In other words, the actions of the conspirators were geopolitically warranted and politically justified. The series of catastrophes suffered by the Soviet ideology, government, and geopolitical system, and the absence of any effective policies of opposition whatsoever from the side of the legally designated power, forced them to take extreme measures. However, the high-ranking bureaucrats who had seized power lacked the spirit, mind, and will to bring the matter they had begun to its end; they wavered, fearing to take abrupt, repressive measures against their opponents, and lost.

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