Lev Gumilev
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Lev Gumilev was a Soviet scholar who developed influential theories about how geographical and climatic factors shape the rise and fall of civilizations and ethnic groups. His work remains significant because it shaped debates about history, ethnicity, and culture, though his ideas have been both celebrated and criticized by modern scholars.
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- Born
- 1 October [ O.S. 18 September ] 1912, Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
- Died
- 15 June 1992 (1992-06-15) (aged 79), Saint Petersburg , Russia
- Doctoral advisor
- Nikolai Kuehner
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Russian philosophy
- School
- Eurasianism
- Institutions
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Doctoral students
- Gelian Prokhorov
- Main interests
- Philosophy of history , history , ethnology , turkology , cultural studies , geopolitics , religious studies
- Notable ideas
- Eurasianism , passionarity
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Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator. He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism.
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