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Марксизм в работах Марии Комши
Marxism in Maria Comşa’s Works

Author(s): Florin Curta
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Marxism
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Marxism; village community; Asiatic mode of production; tributary mode of production; feudalism;

Summary/Abstract: Despite the common opinion according to which Marxism had little, if any influence on the medieval archaeology practiced in Communist countries (other than USSR), a careful examination of the studies published by the Romanian archaeologist Maria Comşa proves that she used Marxism critically to support the interpretation of her own excavations. Comşa was very influenced by the theories of the Marxist sociologist Henri H. Stahl, especially by his definition and theories of the village community as the essential feature of the social life in the Romanian territories between the third and the fourteenth centuries.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 29-42
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian