title: The Formation and Significance of Assyrian Narrative for the Soviet Historiography of Antiquity
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metadata.value: Krikh, Sergey B.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T10:30:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T10:30:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Krikh S. B. The Formation and Significance of Assyrian Narrative for the Soviet Historiography of Antiquity. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 1, рp. 228– 243.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.115
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36498
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author of the article, using the method of backward chronology, highlights characteristic
  features of the narrative about Assyria from the beginning of the 21st century until the middle
  of the 20th century, and points out that I. M. Dyakonoff, who used to be the leading Assyriologist,
  gradually had delegated to his pupils almost all of the aspects of Assyrian history, retaining
  the history of Sumer within his major research scope. On the basis of archival documents,
  the author shows that the Assyrian narrative of I. M. Dyakonoff had been generally shaped
  even before the war, during his work on the chapters for the multi-volume “World History”.
  His Assyrian narrative was formed under the influence of the “Cambridge History of Antiquity”
  and V. V. Struve’s lectures: in the first case, this was evident in the presentation of a large
  amount of material; in the second case — in the desire to search for non-obvious explanations
  of the essence of historical processes. Moreover, I. M. Diakonoff did not share V. V. Struve’s
  views on the Assyrian history and attempted to present his position. The author concludes that
  the shift of I. M. Diakonoff’s interests from Assyrian history to mainly the history of Sumer
  was inevitable and was very unlikely to have been caused by the desire to supersede academician
  V. V. Struve in his status of the classic of Soviet scholarship. Two main factors influenced
  this transition: first, the features of Soviet historical scholarship, which presupposed a search
  for in-depth explanations almost exclusively in the socio-economic field, and secondly, the
  specificity of Assyrian sources, which contained scanty information about socio-economic
  processes.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 20-09-41014
  (“From the Holy Land to the Slave Formation: The History of the Ancient Near East in Russian Historical
  Scholarship in 20th century”).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Assyriology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: I. M. Diakonoff
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The World History
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archival data
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Formation and Significance of Assyrian Narrative for the Soviet Historiography of Antiquity
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metadata.value: Article
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