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

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.