{"product_id":"the-gumilev-mystique-9781501702716","title":"The Gumilev Mystique","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Gumilev Mystique, Mark Bassin investigates the complex structure of Lev 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Gumilev Mystique is by far the most authoritative account in English on the ideas and life of a scholar whose star is still rising in Eurasia. In this widely researched book, Mark Bassin explains the popularity of Gumilev and explores the process by which a somewhat repressed figure in the Stalinist period became a guru of the post-Soviet period. The book reads extremely well and has a quality to it that makes the reader want to know what will come next from this outlandish figure whose real life is stranger than fiction.\" -- David G. Anderson, University of Aberdeen, author of \u003ci\u003eIdentity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia: The Number One Reindeer Brigade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A son of two great Russian poets and an inmate of Stalin's Gulag, Lev Gumilev was the founding father of neo-Eurasianism, a powerful ideological framework for claiming Russia's special civilization and for justifying its predominance on the territory of the USSR. In tracing the origins and transformation of Gumilev’s theories, this book provides the best available explanation of the appeal of neo-Eurasianism in Russia,including among its top political leaders.\" -- Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic, University of Manchester, author of \u003ci\u003eRussia’s Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In 1996, the government of independent Kazakhstan named a new university after him. In 2005, the capital of Tatarstan commemorated his work by erecting a statue in the middle of Kazan. There is a mountain peak in the Altai range and a street in the Kalmyk Elista named after him. A son of Russia's two major poets, a prisoner of the Gulag, a celebrity historian, and a key figure behind the revival of the Eurasianist movement, Lev Gumilev was the man who provided postsocialist nationalisms with a conceptual lexicon and theoretical models. In this lucid and informative book, Mark Bassin meticulously reconstructs historical details, social networks, and intellectual contexts that shaped Gumilev's essentializing theory of 'biological communities’ and their ethnogenesis. The Gumilev Mystique is an important and timely biography of the ideas that continue to constitute the theoretical core of nation building processes in postcommunist societies.\" -- Serguei Alex. Oushakine, Princeton University, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003ePart 1 GUMILEV'S THEORY OF ETHNOS AND ETHNOGENESIS\u003cbr\u003e1. The Nature of Ethnicity\u003cbr\u003e2. Ethnogenesis, Passionarnost′, and the Biosphere \u003cbr\u003e3. Varieties of Ethnic Interaction \u003cbr\u003e4. The Ethnogenetic Drama of Russian History \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2 THE SOVIET RECEPTION OF GUMILEV\u003cbr\u003e5. Soviet Visions of Society and Nature \u003cbr\u003e6. Ethnicity as Ideology and Politics \u003cbr\u003e7. Gumilev and the Russian Nationalists \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3 GUMILEV AFTER COMMUNISM\u003cbr\u003e8. Neo-Eurasianism and the Russian Question \u003cbr\u003e9. Biopolitics and the Ubiquity of Ethnicity \u003cbr\u003e10. \"The Patron of the Turkic Peoples\" \u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Political Significance of Gumilev\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409319633239,"sku":"9781501702716","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501702716.jpg?v=1730506405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-gumilev-mystique-9781501702716","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}