ISBN:
9781501703393
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressourcece.
Series Statement:
Culture and society after socialism
DDC:
305.80092
Keywords:
Gumilev, L. N
;
Ethnology History
;
Eurasian school
;
Soviet Union Historiography
;
Soviet Union Intellectual life
Abstract:
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 ethnicity, and the dynamics of interethnic relations, Gumilev now enjoys a degree of admiration and adulation matched by few if any other public intellectual figures in the former Soviet Union.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2016
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7591/cornell/9780801445941.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801445941.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501703393
URL:
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