title: New Books and Old Trends in the Study of the Russian Middle Ages
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metadata.value: Dvornichenko, Andrey Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-02-02T13:01:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-02-02T13:01:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Dvornichenko A. Yu. New Books and Old Trends in the Study of the Russian Middle Ages. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 3, рp. 793–806. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.315 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.315
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44772
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Kiev Rus’ is a common “antiquity” for the East-European countries and nations. During the
  previous century it became one of the most popular themes for the historians, particularly, for
  the Soviet scholars. It is gratifying that an understanding of the significance of this epoch for
  the adequate perception of complex East-European history has not faded. This article analyzes
  new books devoted to Kiev Rus’ written by S. N. Temushev. His first work about the “formation
  of the state” of Ancient Rus’ is not of great scholarly interest but the second one is indicative
  of the current processes of the complex situation in the humanities. This author’s approach
  to the historical sources is very disputable — he evidently underestimates the significance
  of Russian chronicles. His perception of historiography is also arguable because he blurs the
  boundaries between different trends. There is a combination and mixture of different notions
  in his work. The author of the monograph puts forward some “tax-tribute system” and tries
  to show it role in formation of some “state and feudalism”. He does not take in account such
  scholarly achievement of Western historiography as identification of “chiefdom”, but at the
  same time does not propose any new concept. He begins with a critique of feudalism but
  ends up as an adherent of so called “state feudalism” — in its most artificial and meaningless
  sense in our historiography. His interpretation of the relationships of eastern Slavs with their
  neighbours, particularly, with the Lithuanians is also doubtful. In his opinion, Finno-Ugric
  and Baltic tribes were not the objects of foreign policy of Rus’, but some “foreign confederates”.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by the grant no. 19-18-00073-P “National Identity in the Imperial Politics
  of Memory: History of The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian State in Historiography
  and Social Thought of the 19th–20th Centuries” of the Russian Science Foundation.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: S. N. Temushev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Rus’ state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sources
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: feudalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state feudalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tax-tribute system
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: New Books and Old Trends in the Study of the Russian Middle Ages
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metadata.value: Article
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