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

by Mark Bassin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501702718
• ISBN13: 9781501702716
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher