Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Gumilev’s Theory of Ethnos and Ethnogenesis
7. 1. The Nature of Ethnicity 23
8. 2. Ethnogenesis, Passionarnost′, and the Biosphere 43
9. 3. Varieties of Ethnic Interaction 60
10. 4. The Ethnogenetic Drama of Russian History 81
11. Part 2. The Soviet Reception of Gumilev
12. 5. Soviet Visions of Society and Nature 117
13. 6. Ethnicity as Ideology and Politics 146
14. 7. Gumilev and the Russian Nationalists 177
15. Part 3. GUMILEV AFTER COMMUNISM
16. 8. Neo-Eurasianism and the Russian Question 209
17. 9. Biopolitics and the Ubiquity of Ethnicity 244
18. 10. “The Patron of the Turkic Peoples” 273
19. Conclusion: The Political Significance of Gumilev 306
20. Bibliography 317
21. Index 365