The Gumilev Mystique : : Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia / / Mark Bassin.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912-1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia's greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent th...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and Society after Socialism
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Gumilev's Theory of Ethnos and Ethnogenesis
- 1. The Nature of Ethnicity
- 2. Ethnogenesis, Passionarnost', and the Biosphere
- 3. Varieties of Ethnic Interaction
- 4. The Ethnogenetic Drama of Russian History
- Part 2. The Soviet Reception of Gumilev
- 5. Soviet Visions of Society and Nature
- 6. Ethnicity as Ideology and Politics
- 7. Gumilev and the Russian Nationalists
- Part 3. GUMILEV AFTER COMMUNISM
- 8. Neo-Eurasianism and the Russian Question
- 9. Biopolitics and the Ubiquity of Ethnicity
- 10. "The Patron of the Turkic Peoples"
- Conclusion: The Political Significance of Gumilev
- Bibliography
- Index