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It may not be possible to definitively link Putin to Dugin, and this thesis will show that a range of scholars debate Dugin’s influence in Putin’s government. But in the end, this thesis concludes that the similarities between Dugin’s philosophy and Putin’s actions and rhetoric as President of Russia are so similar as to be more than coincidence, and Dugin’s Eurasian ideology sufficiently meets Hannah Arendt’s criteria for the governing philosophy of an emerging totalitarian society in Russia. By concluding with some of the most current news events in Russia, this paper demonstrates that Russia is continuously and steadily moving toward a totalitarian ideal, not away from it.