title: Chimeras in the false mirrors of historiography
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metadata.value: Puzanov, Viktor V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T12:11:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T12:11:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.value: Puzanov V. V. Chimeras in the false mirrors of historiography. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 2, pp. 418–432.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.216
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6785
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The monograph by A. Yu. Dvornichenko, analyzed in this article focuses on one of the most difficult
  and controversial problems of historical science: the historiography of Eastern Slavic politogenesis.
  The author unfolds before the readers’ eyes a majestic and epochal historiographic canvas, unprecedented
  in its chronology (from the ancient scribes to the present day) and in comprehensiveness of the
  material (involving almost all relevant for the theme by Russian researchers and a significant body of
  foreign studies). A. Yu. Dvornichenko managed to accessibly and vividly deal with many difficult questions
  of politogenesis, making the book read in one breath, as an exciting “historical novel”. With this
  aim, apparently, the author selected corresponding images: mirrors (historiography) and Chimeras
  (fruitless and concepts harmful to science). However, this formulation led to the main drawback of the monograph: A. Y. Dvornichenko does not so much try to reconstruct an objective historiographical
  picture as he battles chimeras, which are “customized” to those research activities and works that do
  not agree with “the democratic concept of politogenesis” upheld by the author. Another criteria for a
  positive appreciation of the work of researchers is their denial of the presence of the state in pre-Mongol
  Russia. As a consequence, this limits the main conclusion of the work in which the main paradigm
  of development of the historiography of Ancient Russian politogenesis was “the move from a monarchical
  to the democratic idea”. This case, as shown in this article, is actually a concept of A. Y. Dvornichenko
  far from “democratic”, as his extremely simplified understanding of the state and reluctance
  to explain to the reader how the hierarchical strategy as proposed by the author was transformed into
  heterarchial one, and then again into a hierarchical one.
  A special source of bewilderment is the way A. Y. Dvornichenko addresses his opponents, an approach
  which often boils down to a simple postulation of their opinions and ridicule, but not to refute,
  the concepts of the opponents. Refs 16.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
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 62; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. Yu. Dvornichenko
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mirrors and chimeras
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: old Russian politogenesis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “democratic” theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: chiefdom
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Chimeras in the false mirrors of historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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