New Directions for the Library 4 Conciliation

What's next after uploading history of Kievan RUS and Moscow RUS? - From the Library4Conciliation Administration Office.

How things are going lately:

The publishing emails on Rus2Russia were opened by a good percentage of our subscribers, but I doubt you were reading along as I was posting. That because there are several books on the site that you may be reading, and not necessarily the one which I am presently posting. I hope that you do get into looking at "from Rus to Russia", whenever you get ready. It will give you great insight into the Russian strained progression of statehood. This history has been set among the adjacent histories, since relations with neighbors are explained.

I have not made any comments on this or any other history that I have published. Of course I have my judgements, based on my western upbringing in the 20th century. Actually all ancient history is quite shocking for the sheltered westerner. We have learned well to ignore slavery or the extermination of the native Americans, or to shrug our shoulders at the "real politic" of by-gone times. Of course people's mind-set from the past is what it was, religious thought not withstanding. What we must firmly take-away is that the models from the past have Nothing-to-offer for the future.

It is true that I get a lot out of Gumilev's writings, and I've grown used to his style. I have his two greatest works ready for upload. They come in last, because they are the longest, and it takes some time to find the desire to put this much work into translating and editing. (Now I am more used to it.) I am going to write about being sort of a Gumilev "fan-boy" soon. And I am open to consider other authors.

With regard to Gumilev's important books, the first, "Ancient Rus and the Great Steppe" is historical, about the Russians and the Mongols. The book lays a detailed background, and much more inclusive than in Rus2Russia. So there is much repetition with the book we just uploaded, from Rus to Russia. Besides, it is longer, at least 24 - 30 chapters, surely much more reading than before, because of all the pages of graphics in Rus2Russia, they are all text in this new book.

I want this book eventually to be on the site, but I have to think of my Subscribers. Every Chapter uploaded is another email sent out. That is good and it is bad, for email harassment sake. If I load quickly, it is still at least a month. Then the other book is “Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere”. It is a stupendous and unique book, and must eventually be on this site also.

Sometimes I think it was originally a series of articles, because many of the chapters, lay the same groundwork, again (and again). Will my subscribers be offended by that much repetition? (Or will it just be a mode of further study? I have read all these books, probably 3 or more times, editing and uploading.) Furthermore, it is also very long, and much to do about a theory of the rise and fall of civilizations.

There are tons of examples, which are kind of short segments illustrating the one facet under consideration. That could also be a frustration, because you jump from one civilization to another, without fully developing the previous. But the book is theoretical and not with the purpose of developing the full histories. Maybe my subscribers are more interested in the history of Russia, and what that might mean for the present conflicts, instead of theory. But the theory can also be taken into the present, which is a beautiful understanding.

I said somewhere that we are all here because of our concern about the current state of the world. The purpose of this library is to know who your "supposed enemy" is. My purpose is not to swing everyone over to Ancient History nor to theories. So I propose to wait on those two books. (But they are ready to go.)

So what else?

Gumilev has 3 focuses, and kind of a 4th. 1) is Archeology and the discovery of monuments that corroborate and give a date to historical records. He explains what it takes to practice as a historical-geographer. I have only uploaded a few pieces with this focus. 2) is the study and compilation of ancient history all over the Eurasian continent for 3,000 years. He stops at about 1900, saying that these processes are not complete, so you can't draw conclusions. Although for him it would have been dangerous to comment on the Soviet Union, where he lived. 3) with so much gathered historical knowledge, the major tendencies common to all civilizations became apparent. This is Gumilev's Theory of Ethnogenesis. 4) is a comment on sources. That historical knowledge is not just from historians writing dry tracts. It also can come from the literature of the time, read and accepted as credible by the peoples living in that zone.

I have translated some Soviet Classics that explain well, life in those troubled times. Eventually I will upload one and see if it gathers interest. For now I will upload a few Gumilev lectures and papers, and maybe some segments on the practice of archeology. Then this site is not "stuck" only on Russia.

I have material on Tianamen Square, but if I upload it people will label this site as propaganda. So NO, it would have to be on a different site. But I also have a Doctorate Thesis of a 10 year study in one rural Chinese county during the 10 years of the Cultural Revolution. This is not a political opinion piece, but an irrefutable study of people's lives and well-being in a very misunderstood period. It is well documented and will stand everything you know about Mao and 1966-1976 on its head. I am also looking into Chinese period literature read by millions and millions of Chinese, and in which the lifestyles portrayed are verified by the huge readership. They are long translation projects though.

So I foresee a great future. Thanks for being here.

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