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The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia

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Description for The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 400 pages, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JPFN; RGCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Culture and Society After Socialism
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501702716
SKU
V9781501702716
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About Mark Bassin
Mark Bassin is Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas at Södertörn University in Stockholm. He is the author of Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865 and coeditor most recently of Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism. Ronald Grigor Suny is William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished ... Read more

Reviews for The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
"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. ... Read more

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