The Yearbook “The Earliest States of Eastern Europe”
“The Earliest States of Eastern Europe” (“Drevneishie gosudarstva Vostochnoi Evropy”, DGVE), ISSN 1560-1382, is a leading Russian academic publication on the problems of history, source studies, literature, religion and culture of Ancient Rus’ and other political entities of Eastern Europe, in a comparative-typological perspective, from Antiquity to the Mongol conquest. Since 1999, the volumes have been thematic and devoted each time to specific topics within the framework of a general theme. The publication was founded in 1976 by the corresponding-member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Vladimir T. Pashuto and is issued once a year.
The original title was “Drevneishie gosudarstva na territorii SSSR” (The Earliest States in the Territory of the USSR). The title was changed in 1994 for the present one “Drevneishie gosudarstva Vostochnoi Evropy” (The Earliest States of Eastern Europe).
ISSN (print) was obtained in 2014.
Until 1999, the Yearbook was published by the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1992 called the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Since 1999, it has been published by the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Editors-in-Chief of DGVE: Vladimir T. Pashuto (1976–1984), Anatoly P. Novoseltsev (1985–1995), Elena A. Melnikova (from 1996 to present time); since 1999, each volume has its managing editor.
Goals and Objectives
The Yearbook publishes original scholarly papers on the problems of the origin and development of state formations in Eastern Europe, the history, religion and culture of Ancient Rus’ and the peoples of Eastern Europe. An important place in thematic publications is occupied by the problems of written culture, source studies and the specifics of ancient and early medieval texts. One of the serious tasks is a comparative-historical and comparative-typological study of socio-political, economic, and cultural processes and phenomena in Ancient Rus’ and in other regions of the medieval world. The main goal of the Yearbook is to publish the latest scholarly results in the specified areas fin order to make them known to the scholarly community, students and teachers of higher education. The editorial board and council of the yearbook strive in every possible way to contribute with their publication policy to the development of highly professional studies of Ancient Rus’ and the medieval world.
