The End and Again the Beginning

One of the most popular books by the outstanding scholar Leonid Nikolayevich Gumilyov is based on lectures he gave in the 1980s to various audiences in Moscow and Leningrad and enjoyed huge success. The author's passionary theory of ethnogenesis, which... explains the patterns of emergence and development of ethnic groups, the downfall and collapse of great empires, is presented in an engaging manner using examples from the lives of peoples of ancient and medieval Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, China, India, America, and the activities of their outstanding representatives (passionaries).
The book is addressed to historians, geographers, philosophers, ethnologists, and a wide range of interested readers.