title: Hunting chimeras through the mirror of historiography
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metadata.value: Gaydenko, Pavel I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T12:09:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T12:09:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.value: Gaydenko P. I. Hunting chimeras through the mirror of historiography. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 2, pp. 411–417.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/ spbu02.2017.215
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6784
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metadata.value: This review represents a monograph by Andrei Dvornichenko Yurievich professor of St. Petersburg
  State University, Doctor of History. His work is dedicated to a historiographical analysis of a significant
  number of works regarding the Russian medieval period and problems related to the genesis of the
  social and political structure of Ancient Rus’. The attention of researcher was concentrated not only on
  the evolution of historians’ opinions in regard to topical questions about the progress of society and
  government of the Eastern Slavs, but also at unreasonable, as the researcher maintains, stereotyped
  representations, established in national historiography. The author has relied on metaphors that quite
  accurately reflect the idea of work that was conceived and realized to present his ideas. As a result,
  the monograph demonstrates original means of analysing historical concepts and offers an informal
  view of the historian’s work to its readers. This work is very valuable because at this moment it is the only monograph that reviews controversial aspects of modern historiography dedicated to the history
  of Ancient Rus’. The same interest represents an emotional part of the text that sincerely and openly
  reflects uneasy relations within scientific and teaching institutions and research centers. Such circumstances
  add unquestionable uniqueness to this work. Many of the author’s comments are arguable but
  he definitively identifies the most critical moments of modern historical research on both conceiving
  the field of studying mediaeval Rus’ and national historians’ works in common. His work is an invitation
  to conversation. Many conclusions of Professor A. Dvornichenko are disappointing but the fact
  they are reflected in a significant body research brings hope that crisis in modern Russian science will
  be resolved. Refs 9.
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
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kievan Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography of Ancient Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. Yu. Dvornichenko
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modern historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the historical school by I. Ya. Froyanov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Hunting chimeras through the mirror of historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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