Three prophets: Solzhenitsyn, Friedman, Dugin. Part one: Solzhenitsyn

Abstract

The article presents Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s work and prophetic thought against a biographical background. The basis of its analysis is the speech on the occasion of awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to the author of The Cancer Ward, and his lecture on the state of the Western civilization delivered at Harvard University – entitled A crisis of courage. Solzhenitsyn’s prophecies about the West are shown in the context of his work Rebuilding Russia. The article presents George Friedman’s geopolitical pre dictions based on his works: The Next Decade and The Next Hundred Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century.

Both visions of the future are shown in terms of Alexander Dugin’s geopolitical concepts. In their context, the meanings of his projects and prophecies about Russia and the world – expressed in the works The Foundations of Geopolitics, The Fourth Political Theory and in program statements titled I’m waiting for Ivan the Terrible – are brought out.