The end and the beginning

One of the most popular books of the outstanding Russian historian and geographer Lev N. Gumilev is written based on the lectures given by the author in the 80-ies to audiences in Moscow and Leningrad and enjoyed great success among all who are able to think independently and creatively. The original concept of drive theory to explain patterns of occurrence and development of ethnoses, death and the collapse of the great empires, presented in an entertaining form, with examples from the lives of many peoples in ancient and medieval Europe, the Middle East, China, India and America and the activities of their outstanding representatives (passionaries), who left a bright trace in History.
The book is printed by the author copy of the manuscript with the restoration of many cuts made by the censorship of the publishing house "Nauka" of the first edition books in 1990