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Soviet Archaeology - Trends, Schools, and History (Hardcover)
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Soviet Archaeology - Trends, Schools, and History (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology
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In Soviet Archaeology: Trends, Schools, and History the Russian
archaeologist Leo Klejn examines the peculiar phenomenon which was
Soviet archaeology, showing where it differs from Western
archaeology and the archaeology of pre-revolutionary Russia, and
where it reveals similarities. In this revised and expanded volume,
he asks whether Soviet archaeology can be regarded as Marxist, and,
if so, whether Marxism was to Russian archaeology a help or a
hindrance at that time. Were the writings of Soviet archaeologists
mere propaganda, driving their own political agenda, or can they be
read as objective studies of our past? Klejn shows that Soviet
archaeology was no monolithic bloc, though Soviet ideologists
attempted to present it as such. Rather it was divided into
competing schools and trends and, even beneath the veil of Marxist
ideology, was often closely related to movements current in Western
archaeology. Inside the system, however, the slightest deviation
from the Party line was regarded as hostile, those guilty being
often dismissed from their posts and condemned to life imprisonment
in the Gulag, or even to death. As an archaeologist working during
the turbulent years of Soviet rule, Klejn presents an account which
is at once scholarly and vivid. He traces the history of
archaeology in Russia from 1917 to 1991 and through the years which
followed, recounting the lives and fates of prominent Soviet
archaeologists in graphic descriptions with accompanying
illustrations.
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