Yuri Vitalyevich Mamleev (1931-2015) was a Soviet and Russian writer and mystical philosopher whose apartment on Yuzhinsky Lane in Moscow became the meeting place of the Yuzhinsky circle in the 1960s, an underground group interested in occultism, esotericism, and the Traditionalist writings of Rene Guenon and Julius Evola. Through Evgeny Golovin, who succeeded Mamleev as the circle’s leading figure after Mamleev emigrated to the United States in 1974, the group shaped a young Alexander Dugin in the early 1980s. This section covers Mamleev and members of the circle whose esoteric politics fed into post-Soviet neo-Eurasianism.
Sources
- Sedgwick, Mark. Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Clover, Charles. Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism. Yale University Press, 2016.