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Author Bassin, Mark, author.

Title The Gumilev mystique : biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the construction of community in modern Russia / Mark Bassin.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Culture and society after socialism
Culture and society after socialism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The nature of ethnicity -- Ethnogenesis, passionarnostʹ and the biosphere -- Varieties of ethnic interaction -- The ethnogenetic drama of Russian history -- Soviet visions of society and nature -- Ethnicity as ideology and politics -- Gumilev and the Russian nationalists -- Neo-Eurasianism and the Russian question -- The ubiquity of ethnicity -- The patron of the Turkic peoples -- Conclusion : the political significance of Gumilev.
Summary 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 thirteen years in Stalinist prison camps, and after his release in 1956 remained officially outcast and professionally shunned. Out of the tumult of perestroika, however, his writings began to attract attention and he himself became a well-known and popular figure. Despite his highly controversial (and often contradictory) views about the meaning of Russian history, the nature of ethnicity, and the dynamics of interethnic relations, Gumilev now enjoys a degree of admiration and adulation matched by few if any other public intellectual figures in the former Soviet Union.
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Subject Gumilev, L. N. (Lev Nikolaevich), 1912-1992.
Gumilev, L. N. (Lev Nikolaevich), 1912-1992.
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava.
Ethnology -- Soviet Union -- History.
Ethnology.
Soviet Union.
History.
Soviet Union -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Eurasian school.
Eurasian school.
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bassin, Mark. Gumilev mystique. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016 9780801445941 (DLC) 2015032013 (OCoLC)919041800
ISBN 9781501703393 (electronic book)
1501703390 (electronic book)
9780801445941
0801445949
9781501702716
1501702718
Standard No. 40025834207