According to Prof Alexander Dugin, Vladimir Putin stands at a crossroads. Throughout his career as the President of Russia, Putin has attempted to balance two opposing sides of his political nature: one side is a liberal democrat who seeks to adopt Western-style reforms in Russia and maintain good relations with the United States and Europe, and the other is a Russian patriot who wishes to preserve Russia's traditions and reassert her role as one of the great powers of the world. According to Dugin, this balancing act cannot go on if Putin wishes to enjoy continuing popular support among the Russian people. Putin must act to preserve Russia's unique identity and sovereignty in the face of increasing challenges, both from Russian liberals at home and from foreign powers. Russia is no longer strong enough to stand on her own, he writes. In order to do this, Russia must cooperate with other dissenting powers who oppose the new globalist order of liberalism to bring about a multipolar world, in which no single nation wields supreme power, but rather several major powers keep each other in balance. Russia is crucial to this effort, in Dugin's view, and indeed, its own survival as a unique and independent civilisation is dependent on a geopolitical shift away from the unipolar world represented by America's unchecked supremacy. This fascinating book, written by an informal advisor to Putin and a Kremlin insider, is the first of its kind in English. Alexander Dugin (b. 1962) is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia, having been active in politics there since the 1980s. In addition to the many books he has authored on political, philosophical, and spiritual topics, he is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at Moscow State University, and is the intellectual leader of the Eurasia Movement, which he founded. For more than a decade, he has also been an advisor to Vladimir Putin and others in the Kremlin on geopolitical matters, being a vocal advocate of a return of Russian power to the global stage to act as a counterweight to American hegemony. Arktos published his book, The Fourth Political Theory, in 2012.

亚历山大-杜金教授认为，弗拉基米尔-普京站在一个十字路口。在其作为俄罗斯总统的整个职业生涯中，普京一直试图平衡其政治本质的两个对立面：一面是自由民主派，试图在俄罗斯采取西方式的改革，并与美国和欧洲保持良好关系；另一面是俄罗斯的爱国者，希望维护俄罗斯的传统，并重新确认其作为世界大国之一的作用。杜金认为，如果普京希望继续得到俄罗斯人民的支持，这种平衡行为就不能继续下去。面对来自俄罗斯国内自由派和外国势力越来越多的挑战，普京必须采取行动，维护俄罗斯的独特身份和主权。他写道，俄罗斯已不再强大到足以自立。为了做到这一点，俄罗斯必须与其他反对自由主义全球新秩序的异议大国合作，以实现一个多极世界，在这个世界上，没有一个国家拥有最高权力，而是几个大国相互保持平衡。在杜金看来，俄罗斯对这一努力至关重要，事实上，俄罗斯作为一个独特和独立的文明，其自身的生存取决于地缘政治的转变，即摆脱以美国不受约束的优势地位为代表的单极世界。这本由普京的非正式顾问和克里姆林宫内部人士撰写的引人入胜的书，是同类书中的第一本。亚历山大-杜金（生于1962年）是后苏联时期俄罗斯最知名的作家和政治评论家之一，自20世纪80年代以来一直活跃在那里的政治领域。除了他在政治、哲学和精神主题方面撰写的许多书籍外，他目前还是莫斯科国立大学社会学系的教授，并且是他创立的欧亚运动的思想领袖。十多年来，他也是弗拉基米尔-普京和克里姆林宫其他人在地缘政治事务方面的顾问，是俄罗斯力量重返全球舞台以作为美国霸权的制衡力量的大声疾呼者。阿克托斯于2012年出版了他的书《第四政治理论》。