Dr. Morris Mottale

I will soon be publishing an article for Harvard Business Review Italy on Russian Foreign Policy and Russian Intellectual History. The assassination of Alexander Dugin’s daughter Darya Dugina in Moscow and the emotional commemorative speech of her father during the funeral is very revealing about the ideological forces that shape Russia in the international system and her foreign policy.  Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is a very powerful introduction to Russian historical perceptions of intellectual developments in the West. Decades after the publication of Dostoevsky’s powerful novel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave a commencement address at Harvard on June 8, 1978 in which he denounced mass media, especially American mass media and their powerful influence on shaping opinions through their own ideological lenses¹. An understanding and insight into Russian Intellectual History can help our understanding of what informs Russian decision making.

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