Mark Bassin: 2 books
The Gumilev Mystique
Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
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...
Eurasia 2.0
Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This book discusses the return of geopolitical ideas and doctrines to the post-Soviet space with special focus on the new phenomenon of digital geopolitics, which is an overarching term for different political practices including dissemination of geopolitical ideas online, using the internet by political...