The Concept of the Ancient Orient in Russian and Soviet Scholarship of the Twentieth Century

The term “Ancient Orient” was borrowed by Russian scholarship from the German tradition already in the late nineteenth century and was used to denote the civilizations of the Near and Middle East in the pre-Hellenistic age. In the 1910s B.A. Turaev in his work A History of Ancient Orient demonstrated the possibility and necessity of comparing the ancient Oriental civilizations (without abandoning the initial meaning of the term “Ancient Orient”) with other early ancient cultures and of searching connections between the Near and Middle Eastern civilizations and other regions of Asia. Thus, a path was paved towards a wider interpretation of the notion of the “Ancient Orient”, including India and China. Struve’s theory of the Ancient Oriental societies as the first stage of the slave-owning mode of production was eventually abandoned; however, the wider interpretation of the term “Ancient Orient” was preserved in the late Soviet and post-Soviet research. Its theoretical elaboration remains a topical historiographictask.

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historiography, history of scholarship, Ancient Orient, Near and Middle East, India, China, B.A. Turaev, V.V. Struve

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GOST	Ladynin I. The Concept of the “Ancient Orient” in Russian and Soviet Scholarship of the Twentieth Century // Vestnik drevnei istorii – 2019. – V. 79. – Issue 3 C. 772-778 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/vdi/s032103910007713-7-1-en (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S032103910007713-7
MLA	Ladynin, Ivan "The Concept of the “Ancient Orient” in Russian and Soviet Scholarship of the Twentieth Century." Vestnik drevnei istorii 79.3 (2019):772-778. DOI: 10.31857/S032103910007713-7
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