Scientific heritage of Dr. Lev N. Gumilev

Dr. Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev [Gumiliov] (1912-1992), the greatest cultural geographer in Russian history. Despite his critics, L. N. Gumiliov opened a path of syncretic methodology that wed history to geography, humanities to science. He also moved the work of Vladimir Vernadskiy forward into the late 20th century, and created a bridge to Western ethnography in resonance with Bordieu, Leroi-Gourhan, and Levi-Strauss.

Our primary goal is to divulge the ideas of Dr. Lev Nikolaeivich Gumiliov (L.N.G.) - his Passionary Theory Ethnogenes (PTE) - to specialized readers of historical literature as well as to general readers.  You have a chance to read this books and some material on L. N. Gumiliov. After reading his works your picture of the World History will never be the same...

If you read at least one of the Gumilev's books, you will be able to divide your life into two parts: before you read it, and after.

Gumilev's Passionate Theory of Ethnogenes brings together findings of many sciences that might seem unrelated. On the pages of his books you will find answers to many questions historians, anthropologists, ethnographists and geographers were wrestling with for centuries. Lev Gumilev easily operates with facts from the history of Ancient Turks, Huns, Vandals, Khazars, Mongols, Germans and Slavs. Familiarize yourself with his theory, and you will have better understanding of the processes that took place in societies of the past, and you will definitely have a better clue of the processes taking place right now right around you. Lev Gumilev was the best historian among geographers and the best geographer among historians.

If you can read in Russian, I highly suggest visiting Gumilevica. There you can find many on-line books and a lot of articles by Lev Nikolayevich Gumiliov, as well as maps, links and all kinds of related materials. You may use Google.Translate for reading the Scientific heritage of Dr. Lev N. Gumilev in 40 languages  of World.

The Biography of Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev 

The Bibliography 

The Works of Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev 

"Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere"

Etnogenez i biosfera Zemli. The main scientific treatise where is described in detail created by the Russian scholar the Passionate Theory of Ethnogenes (1979). Progress Publishers, Moscow. 1990. - 386 p. ISBN: 5-0100-2010-6.

"Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John"

V Poiskakh Vymyshlennogo Tsarstva. This book is about the history of Central Asia in the ninth to the fourth centuries (1970). Transl. by R. Е. Smith. - Cambridge University Press. 1988. - 416 p. 4 maps, 4 halftones, 5 line drawings. ISBN: 0-5213-2214-6.

"Where was she, the country Khazaria?"

Gde byla ona, strana Khazariya? The article is about the history of Khazar Khaghanate in the sixth to the tenth centuries (1964) // Newspaper 'Nedelja', 1964,  No 24, 7-13 July.

Appendix

Maps from Gumilev L.N., Hunnu: Sredinnaya Asia v drevnie vremena (AN SSSR, Institut Vostochnoi Literatury, 1960).

Maps from Gumilev L.N., Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John ( Cambridge University Press. 1988).

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