LEADER 04968nam 2200697 450 001 9910798150803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0338-2 010 $a1-5017-0339-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501703393 035 $a(CKB)3710000000631015 035 $a(EBL)4517884 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001639803 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16398933 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001639803 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12225951 035 $a(PQKB)11459822 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495601 035 $a(OCoLC)945976904 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51387 035 $a(DE-B1597)478259 035 $a(OCoLC)979687382 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501703393 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4517884 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11248547 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL951810 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4517884 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000631015 100 $a20160903h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Gumilev Mystique $eBiopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia /$fMark Bassin 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 380 pages) 225 1 $aCulture and Society after Socialism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-4594-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tForeword /$rSuny, Ronald Grigor --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart 1. Gumilev's Theory of Ethnos and Ethnogenesis --$t1. The Nature of Ethnicity --$t2. Ethnogenesis, Passionarnost', and the Biosphere --$t3. Varieties of Ethnic Interaction --$t4. The Ethnogenetic Drama of Russian History --$tPart 2. The Soviet Reception of Gumilev --$t5. Soviet Visions of Society and Nature --$t6. Ethnicity as Ideology and Politics --$t7. Gumilev and the Russian Nationalists --$tPart 3. GUMILEV AFTER COMMUNISM --$t8. Neo-Eurasianism and the Russian Question --$t9. Biopolitics and the Ubiquity of Ethnicity --$t10. "The Patron of the Turkic Peoples" --$tConclusion: The Political Significance of Gumilev --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aSince 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. He is freely compared to Albert Einstein and Karl Marx, and his works today sell millions of copies and have been adopted as official textbooks in Russian high schools. Universities and mountain peaks alike are named in his honor, and a statue of him adorns a prominent thoroughfare in a major city. Leading politicians, President Vladimir Putin very much included, are unstinting in their deep appreciation for his legacy, and one of the most important foreign-policy projects of the Russian government today is clearly inspired by his particular vision of how the Eurasian peoples formed a historical community. In The Gumilev Mystique, Mark Bassin presents an analysis of this remarkable phenomenon. He investigates the complex structure of Gumilev's theories, revealing how they reflected and helped shape a variety of academic as well as political and social discourses in the USSR, and he traces how his authority has grown yet greater across the former Soviet Union. The themes he highlights while untangling Gumilev's complicated web of influence are critical to understanding the political, intellectual, and ethno-national dynamics of Russian society from the age of Stalin to the present day. 410 0$aCulture and society after socialism. 606 $aEthnology$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aEurasian school 607 $aSoviet Union$xIntellectual life 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistoriography 615 0$aEthnology$xHistory. 615 0$aEurasian school. 676 $a305.80092 700 $aBassin$b Mark$01487549 701 $aSuny$b Ronald Grigor$0140812 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798150803321 996 $aThe Gumilev Mystique$93707469 997 $aUNINA