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The Gumilev Mystique : Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia, Mark Bassin
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- 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. 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. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 380 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780801445941
- Label
- The Gumilev Mystique : Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
- Title
- The Gumilev Mystique
- Title remainder
- Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Bassin
- Language
- eng
- 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. 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. --
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- NIC/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bassin, Mark
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Culture and society after socialism
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gumilev, L. N.
- Ethnology
- Eurasian school
- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union
- Label
- The Gumilev Mystique : Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia, Mark Bassin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-363) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn919041800
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 380 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801445941
- Lccn
- 2015032013
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)919041800
- Label
- The Gumilev Mystique : Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia, Mark Bassin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-363) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn919041800
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 380 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801445941
- Lccn
- 2015032013
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)919041800
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