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A New Look at Kiev Rus'

A New Look at Kiev Rus' P A U L B U S H K O V I T C H ( N e w H a v e n , C t . , U . S . A . ) A N e w L o o k a t K i e v R u s ' I. Ia. Froianov, Kievskaia Rus': Ocherki sotsial'noekonomicheskoi istorii. Lenin- grad: Izd-vo Leningd. univ-ta, 1974. 158 pp. 82 kopeks. Since the late 1940's Soviet historical perspectives o f the Kiev period o f Russian history have been dominated by the work of B. D. Grekov (1882-1953). There has been no a t t e m p t t o produce an overall view in conflict with his interpretations, in spite o f the accumulation o f new material through the archaeology and research o f the last twenty years. Soviet historians have added new problems and investigated new areas rather than revise Grekov's view on the fundamental socioeconomic nature o f Kievan society. Grekov held that Kievan society was in the Marxist sense "feudal" (that is, based on seigneurial relations), and not a society based on slaveholding. He also rejected the possibility that Kiev Russia http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

A New Look at Kiev Rus'

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 10 (3): 426 – Jan 1, 1976

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Brill
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© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0090-8290
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2210-2396
DOI
10.1163/221023976X01034
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P A U L B U S H K O V I T C H ( N e w H a v e n , C t . , U . S . A . ) A N e w L o o k a t K i e v R u s ' I. Ia. Froianov, Kievskaia Rus': Ocherki sotsial'noekonomicheskoi istorii. Lenin- grad: Izd-vo Leningd. univ-ta, 1974. 158 pp. 82 kopeks. Since the late 1940's Soviet historical perspectives o f the Kiev period o f Russian history have been dominated by the work of B. D. Grekov (1882-1953). There has been no a t t e m p t t o produce an overall view in conflict with his interpretations, in spite o f the accumulation o f new material through the archaeology and research o f the last twenty years. Soviet historians have added new problems and investigated new areas rather than revise Grekov's view on the fundamental socioeconomic nature o f Kievan society. Grekov held that Kievan society was in the Marxist sense "feudal" (that is, based on seigneurial relations), and not a society based on slaveholding. He also rejected the possibility that Kiev Russia

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Published: Jan 1, 1976

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