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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.^ He Is Freely Compared To Albert Einstein And Karl Marx, And His Works Today Sell Millions Of Copies And Have Been Adopted As Official Textbooks In Russian High Schools. Universities And Mountain Peaks Alike Are Named In His Honor, And A Statue Of Him Adorns A Prominent Thoroughfare In A Major City. Leading Politicians, Presiden

Author

Mark Bassin; Ronald Grigor Suny

Publisher

Cornell University Press Cornell University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501703386

Subjects

History, Sociology, Historical Fiction