Soviet archaeology : trends, schools, and history /
An updated English translation of Leo S. Klejn's volume, which originally appeared in Russian and German. In this title Klejn looks at the peculiar phenomenon that is Soviet archaeology and its differences and similarities to Western archaeology and the archaeology of pre-revolutionary Russia....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in the history of archaeology.
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| Summary: | An updated English translation of Leo S. Klejn's volume, which originally appeared in Russian and German. In this title Klejn looks at the peculiar phenomenon that is Soviet archaeology and its differences and similarities to Western archaeology and the archaeology of pre-revolutionary Russia. In this updated and expanded volume, he considers whether Soviet archaeology can be considered as Marxist and, if so, was Marxism a help or hindrance to Russian archaeology at the time. Were the writings of Soviet archaeologists sheer propaganda with their own political agenda or can they be considered as objective sources about our past? Klejn shows that Soviet archaeology was not a monolithic block as Soviet ideologists attempted to represent it, but rather it was divided into competing schools and trends and, even under the veil of Marxist ideology, was often closely related to the movements occurring in Western archaeology. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 411 pages : illustrations color maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-398) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199601356 0199601356 |