The Earliest States of Eastern Europe. 2010: Prerequisites and Ways of Formation of the Old Russian State. Editor of the volume Е.А. Melnikova. Moscow: Dmitry Pozharsky University, 2012
This volume of the almanac "The Earliest States of Eastern Europe" is devoted to the actual problems of the emergence of the Old Russian state, studied on the basis of both written sources and archaeological materials. Using the methods of political anthropology, the main stages of the formation of statehood among the Eastern Slavs and the level of development of the Eastern Slavic communities on the eve of the formation of the state are highlighted. Particular attention is paid to one of the aspects of the infrastructure of the Old Russian state - the formation of a system of military-administrative centers through which power was exercised. The ways of state formation among the peoples neighboring with Russia are also considered. An independent problem is the emergence of written culture and understanding in it the era of the formation of the state.
Table of contents
- E. A. Melnikova - Introduction - 3-9
- A. М. Oblomskiy - The Population Structure of the Forest-Steppe Dnieper Region in the 7th Century B.C. - 10-33
- E. А. Shinakov - The Tribes of Eastern Europe before and during the Formation of Ancient Rus - 34-93
- A. V. Grigorjev - The Population of the Dnieper and Don Interfluve in the Eighth to the First Half of the Eleventh Century - 94-127
- A. V. Komar - Poliane and Severiane - 128-191
- A. Gorsky - On the Stage of Development of East Slavic Society on the Eve of the Emergence of Ancient Rus’ - 192-210
- N. N. Kradin - The Formation of State in Old Rus’ in the Light of Political Anthropology - 211-239
- E. A. Melnikova - European context of the emergence of the Old Russian state - 240-269
- V. S. Nefedov - The Smolensk Dnieper Region and the Dvina Region under the Formation of the Old Russian State According to Archaeological Data - 270-299
- A. N. Bondar’ - Fortified Settlements between the Dnieper and Lower Desna in the Late Ninth to Tenth Century - 300-327
- N. I. Platonova - Old Russian Pogosts — a New Old Problem - 328-388
- V. V. Murashova - Topical Problems in the Investigation of Gnezdovo - 389-405
- A. A. Fetisov - «Brigade Culture» of Old Rus’ - 406-436
- V. Y. Petrukhin - Fennic Tribes and the Calling-in of the Varangians - 437-447
- S. G. Klyashtornyj - Steppe Empires of Ancient Nomads of Central Asia (Stages of Politogenesis) - 448-463
- T. M. Kalinina - Whether the state of Khazaria the nomadic empire was? (According to written sources) - 464-481
- A. S. Shchavelev - The Seal of Byzantine Patrikios and Interpreter Sfen - 482-488
- T. V. Rozhdestvenskaja - Old Russian Epigraphic Monuments of the Times of State Formation - 489-513
- P. S. Stefanovich - “The Legend of the Calling-in of the Varangians” or Origo Gentis Russorum? - 514-583
- T. V. Guimon - The Eleventh- and the Early Twelfth-Century Events in Novgorodian Chronicles and Lists - 584-703