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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Andrey Korotayev, Gombojab Tsybikov, Frolova Olga Pavlovna, Isaac Jacob Schmidt, Makarenko Vladimir Afanasyevich, Nikolay Baskakov, Nikolai Dmitriev, Nikolai Yadrintsev, Lev Gumilev, Nicholas Poppe, Esper Ukhtomsky, Viktor Pogadayev, Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, Daniel Chwolson, Alexander Samoylovich, Alexander Tumansky, Grigory Potanin, Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov, Nikolay Kradin, Abraham Harkavy, Sergey Malov, Vladimir Minorsky, Alexander von Stael-Holstein, Vasily Bartold, Vasily Vasilievich Struve, Boris Piotrovsky, Yuri Bregel, Natalia Zhukovskaia, Anatoly Khazanov, Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, Peter A. Boodberg, Yevgeny Polivanov, Vyacheslav Rybakov, Pyotr Kozlov, Mikhail Kryukov, Anna Suvorova, Julius Brutzkus, Igor Diakonov, Kir Bulychev, Boris L. Tageev, Jozef S kowski, Boris Turayev, Pyotr Kafarov, Svetoslav Roerich, Nikita Bichurin, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Isaac Broyde, Vladimir Golenishchev, George de Roerich, Vasily Radlov, Joseph Orbeli, Nikolai Fedorenko, Max Seligsohn, Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, Vladimir Alexeyevich Ivanov, Iosif Goshkevich, Ludmila Vassilyeva, Otto Rosenberg, Nikolay Veselovsky, Kamilla Trever, Vladimir Shileyko, Nikolay Ilminsky. Excerpt: Andrey Korotayev (, born 1961) is an anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics. Born in Moscow, Andrey Korotayev attended Moscow State University, where he received a B.A. degree in 1984 and an M.A. in 1989. He earned a Ph.D. in 1993 from Manchester University, and in 1998 a Doctor of Sciences degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2000, he has been Professor and Director of the Anthropology of the East Center at the Russian State Unive...
