1. Eurasian History
Europe and Asia are where we find rich written histories, (maybe going back 3,000 years). What happened in Africa or the Americas back then is lesser known, and more a hypothesis based on diggings.
For the present “western world”, I think Europe was our heritage, and Christianity the main belief system. What did our forbearers do back then, and what have we learned through their mistakes? If you read some of these books, it is not all that pretty.
Most of these books are my translations, and not otherwise available in English.
In Search of a Fictional Kingdom (excerpt)
But while uploading Ancient RUS and the Great Steppe, I noticed this book was referred to in the footnotes many times. So evidentially, there is developed a great background on central Asia in these pages. It is again about the Great Steppe, but this excerpt is only one post. (9,500 words). (I have another book about Central Asia to translate: LEV GUMIL…
INDEX FILE for Ancient Rus and the Great Steppe
Below I will copy the table of contents, (last) so you know how extensive this work is. You can locate how far we have progressed during the uploads. The upload chapters will be above the Table of Contents. In fact, it took me some years to decide to translate this from the Russian, being such a big labor. It was ready to upload last year, but we have …
26. Ancient Rus and the Great Steppe, Gumilev
I THANK YOU FOR “HANGING IN THERE”. I acknowledge this is a very long book. We started uploading on Aug 11, and I hope to be finished this month. Here I put three shorter sections together, but we are still only at 83%. I was ready to upload this in the autumn of 2023. But I was then uploading
27. Ancient Rus and the Great Steppe, Gumilev
Let us recall that the Mongols came to Iran as defenders of the Christian faith. Nestorians and Jacobites (Monophysites) who joined them were very numerous and influential in Central Asia. In 1260 They liberated Syria from the Muslims and were not far from the walls of Jerusalem, but the betrayal of the European Crusaders and the separation of the Golde…
28. Ancient Rus and the Great Steppe, Gumilev
[I am posting a little bit longer, because we are getting so close to finish this book. It has been taking a very long time until now; the home stretch. Here is recounted the very complicated maneuvers of the Mongolian Hordes and Timur.]
29. Ancient Rus and the Great Steppe, Gumilev
The "submission" expressed by Khan Temir-Kutlug to Emir Timur did not save him from trouble. Brave and stubborn prisoners, natives of the Blue Horde, could not rejoice that their khan was a Timur officer, a descendant of their long-time enemy Urus Khan, who made peace with a cruel victor who plundered their yurts and cattle and stole their wives and dau…
30. Ancient Rus and the Great Steppe, Gumilev
Epochs, like people, are mortal. Superethnic integrity, coupled with a worldview and cultural tradition, arising as a result of a passionate push, inevitably loses inertia, and the next passionate push marks the beginning of a new process. However, culture can pass on the baton, which often obscures natural patterns: to contemporaries of the era, which …
The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
Link to the article [Here there are a lot of links to books and sources, that I have NOT read. I am only posting this article. Discussion of non-violence at the end: “Nonviolence is a means that involves begging the powerful for concessions and inviting them to do violence without consequences for themselves: it leads to a society with an elite that fee…
Index Page, from Rus to Russia, fully uploaded
"From Rus' to Russia" is an original and truly in-depth study of the outstanding Russian historian and geographer L. N. Gumilev. After 1725 and the death of Peter the Great the history turns from the formation of Russia, to the formation of the Russian empire, and is not a part of this study.
Index Page, "The Opening of Khazaria", historical section, 5 chapters
Notes on the book "The Opening of Khazaria" (Below these notes and links are some previews about the Caspian Sea and Archaeology. Please check all the way to the bottom.) We have traced the history of the Khazar people from its emergence to its end. We have seen that the fate of the Khazars and the state they created was changeable and contradictory. The…
Index Page, Ancient to pre-Soviet Russian History, in 6 chapters
This book explains the Russian stereo-type as related to the landscape and the ancient traditional practices. It talks about the eventual unification of Russia from the internal and surrounding principalities. It explains the strategic and security concerns throughout the centuries. It details the various repressions and their softening (not too much …
This above is a university course on Ancient Russian history up until the Soviet period.
This book ends before the first World War. There is nothing about the overthrow of the Tsar in 1917. This book is more of a social and political commentary, and not an analysis of the wars. Of course they are all mentioned, but recounted synthetically. There is a lot of ground covered, therefore it is lively, and moves quickly. I had originally worked with this book 2-3 years ago.