 | The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia Subjects: Gumilev L. N. (Lev Nikolaevich) 1912–1992; Ethnology -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Historiography; Eurasian school; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life; In 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. 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 University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the author most recently of "They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else:" A History of the Armenian Genocide . |
