Ethnogenesis and the Earth’s Biosphere

INTRODUCTION
—The Grounds for Scientific Quest
——Time and history.
——The view from up above.
——First observation. Second century A.D. Following the Sun.
——Second observation. Fifth century. Course-countersunwise.
——Third observation. The eighth century. Following the Sun.
——Fourth observation. The twelfth century. Course-countersunwise.
——Mankind as the species ‘Homo sapiens.’
——The definition of the concept ‘ethnos.’

Chapter One: ABOUT THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE
—What It’s About and Why It’s Important
——Fear of disenchantment.
—On the Usefulness of Ethnography and the Difficulties to Be Surmounted
——The dissimilarity of ethnoi.
——The complexities of the terminology employed.
——Summaries and scruples.
——Limits.
——‘The historian without geography stumbles.’
—Nature and History
——The combination of nature study and history.
——Formations and ethnoi.
——Can one trust the historical sources?
——Can we believe the memorials?
—Are there ethnoi?
——There are no signs for defining an ethnos
——An ethnos is not a society.
——Language.
——Descent from a single ancestor.
——Ethnos as an illusion.
——Between West and East.
——A country and people without a name.
——‘States’ and ‘processes.’

Chapter Two: THE PROPERTIES OF AN ETHNOS
—Ethnos and Ethnonym
——Names deceive.
——Examples of camouflage.
——The helplessness of philology and history.
—Mosaic Structure as a Property of an Ethnos
——It is possible to manage without a gentile system.
——What the gentile system was replaced by.
——The formation of ethnic subgroups.
——Variants of ethnic contacts.
——The role of exogamy.
——An experiment in interpretation.
—The Ethnic Stereotype of Behavior
——Dissimilarity as a principle.
——The variability of behavior stereotypes.
——Ethnos and the four sensations of time.
—Ethnos as a System
——‘System’ in a popular explanation.
——‘System’ in ethnology.
——Levels and types of ethnic systems.
—Subethnoi
——The structure of an ethnos.
——Self-regulation of an ethnos.
——Consortia and convicinities.
—Superethnoi
——The reality of a superethnos: the Franks.
——The origin of a superethnos: Byzantium.
——The breakdown of a superethnos: the Arabs of the seventh to tenth centuries A.D.
—The Algorithm of Ethnogenesis
——Ethnic relicts.
——Statics and dynamics.
——Incorporation.
——The difference between equilibrium and development.
——Ethnogenesis and natural selection.
——Altruism or rather anti-egoism.
——The extermination of relict ethnoi.
—Ethnic Contacts
——The hierarchy of ethnic taxonomy.
——Contacts at different levels.
——The relation of ethnic entities of different orders.
——Ethnoi always arise from contacts.
——Factor X.

Chapter Three: THE ETHNOS IN HISTORY
—Ideas about World History
——Two aspects of world history.
——Why I do not agree with Toynbee.
——Blind alleys.
——Why I disagree with N.I. Konrad.
——About Hellenism.
——Re: Byzantium.
——Re: China.
—Thoughts on Ethnic History
——The indeterminacy principle in ethnology.
——Two systems of reference.
——The history of culture and ethnogenesis.

Chapter Four: OUR INNER NATURE
—Ethnos and Population
——An ethnos is not a population.
——Monomorphism.
——Background and factor.
——Complementariness.
——Biological lines of investigation.
—Phylogenesis or Ethnogenesis?
——Progress and the evolution of man.
——Regional mutations.
——Conversion of the biocoenosis and succession.
——Anthroposuccession.
—When Immortality Is More Terrible Than Death
——Phylogenesis becomes ethnogenesis.
——Evolution and ethnogenesis.
——Creation or life?
——The views of S.I. Korzinsky.
——Excess and inertia in ethnogenesis.
—The Sum of the Contradictions
——Until an answer is found.
——Ethnogenesis and energy.
——The discreteness of ethnic history.
——Where, then, is the X-factor?
——Clio vs Kronos.

Chapter Five: DRIVE IN ETHNOGENESIS
—The Ethnogenic Sign or X-Factor
——Here it is, the X-factor!
——Engels on tire role of human passions.
—Examples of Drive
——Napoleon.
——Alexander the Great.
——Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
——Jan Huss and Joan of Arc.
——Saving or squandering.
—The Tension of Drive
——The biochemical aspect of drive.
——The multi-vectorial character of the ethnic system in outline.
——Induction drive.
——Means of losing drive.
——Men with drive are doomed.
—Sub-Drive
——Harmonious individuals.
——‘Vagrants,’ ‘soldier tramps,’ and ‘degenerates.’
——Gradations of drive.
——Hannibal and Carthage.
—The Fading of Drive
——Flash and ashes.
——Weak but active drive.
——Bastards.
——What cements an ethnos?

Chapter Six: THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE SCIENCES
—The Field in a System
——Ethnocoenosis.
——Ethnic field.
——The rhythms of ethnic fields.
——The ethnic field and ethnogenesis.
——The nature of a superethnos.
——Chimeras.
—The Nature of Drive
——Vernadsky’s theory of the biosphere.
——Mutations—drive impulses.
——Commissures of terrains.
——Thoughts about the noosphere.
—Drive and the Sphere of Consciousness
——The frame of reference.
——The relations of classes of impulses.
——Application of the conception to ethnogenesis.
——The place of drive in historical synthesis.
——Generalization.
—The Mode of Scientific Search
——From historical geography to ethnic psychology.
——Objections.
——Rises and falls.
——The principles of reference.
—The Phases of an Upsurge of Drive
——The birth of an ethnos.
——The upsurge of drive.
——Second Rome or Anti-Rome?
——Decomposition and regeneration.
——Overheating of drive.
——The poetry of concepts.
——Collapse of drive.
—Displacement
——There is also a pattern in this.
——The depletion and decline of drive.
——Reciprocity.
——Anomalies.
——The waning of youth.
——Recovered youth.
—The Beginning of the Decline of Drive
——Calamity from excess.
——Train of golden ages.
——In China.
——Victims of blossoming.
——Splitting of the ethnic ‘field.’
——The break and its significance.
—The Phase of Ethnic Inertia
——The ‘golden autumn’ of civilization.
——From the world of Christianity to the civilized world.
——Civilization and nature.
——Who destroyed Babylon?
——What is a ‘decline of culture?’
—The Phase of Obscuration
——The ‘twilight’ of an ethnos.
——From the golden age to decline.
——Bloody gloom.
——The substitute.
——It is thus everywhere.
—After the End
——The memorial phase.
——The transition to nowhere.
—POSTSCRIPT
——An experiment in constructing a schema.