Towards the Concept of the Slave-Owning Society at the Ancient Orient: the Manuscript Elements of the Ancient Oriental Society by Vsevolod Avdiev (1933)

Ladynin, Ivan

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Towards the Concept of the Slave-Owning Society at the Ancient Orient: the Manuscript Elements of the Ancient Oriental Society by Vsevolod Avdiev (1933)

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The article presents an analysis of unpublished manuscripts written in the early 1930s by Vsevolod Avdiev (1898—1978), a prominent personality in the Soviet research of the Ancient Near East, which are preserved now in his fond at the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences (no. 1782); one of these papers entitled Elements of the Ancient Oriental Society (1933) is fully published. These manuscripts allow concluding that their author was shuttling from one option to another in defining the nature of the Ancient Near Eastern society; and this shuttling largely depended on the trends in ideology and partly on fashions in academic approaches. Starting with a semi-biological interpretation of some objects of the Ancient Egyptian pre-dynastic art and with defining the Egyptian state as “the organizer of production” (1930) Avdiev gradually joined the concept of feudalism at the Ancient Orient and stressed the importance of the class struggle in it (1931, early 1933). In May 1933 he wrote the paper that is being published now: there he defined the Ancient Oriental societies as slave-owning, though with some reservations about their specifics. One should pay attention to the instantaneousness in the change of his position, which was probably backed by Stalin’s speech of 19 February 1933 claiming the struggle between slaves and slave-owners to have been the major factor of ancient history. Avdiev’s schemes were not only ideologically biased but also rather meagerly argued: they demonstrate a number of errors and correspond to the level of popularization rather than of real research.

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Vsevolod Avdiev, Ancient Orient, Egypt, social and economic system, slavery, Soviet Marxism, historiography

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GOST	Ladynin I. Towards the Concept of the Slave-Owning Society at the Ancient Orient: the Manuscript Elements of the Ancient Oriental Society by Vsevolod Avdiev (1933) // ISTORIYA. – 2020. – V. 11. – Issue 1 (87). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840008294-2-1/. DOI: 10.18254/S207987840008294-2
MLA	Ladynin, Ivan "Towards the Concept of the Slave-Owning Society at the Ancient Orient: the Manuscript Elements of the Ancient Oriental Society by Vsevolod Avdiev (1933)." ISTORIYA. 11.1 (87) (2020). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840008294-2
APA	Ladynin I. (2020). Towards the Concept of the Slave-Owning Society at the Ancient Orient: the Manuscript Elements of the Ancient Oriental Society by Vsevolod Avdiev (1933). ISTORIYA. vol. 11, no. 1 (87) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840008294-2

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