The Earliest States of Eastern Europe

The Earliest States on the Territory of the USSR. 1980: Materials and Research. Мoscow: Nauka, 1982

DG-1980
The Earliest States on the Territory of the USSR. 1980: Materials and Research. Мoscow: Nauka, 1982

The book contains a monograph by Mikhail V. Bibikov "Byzantine Sources on the History of Russia, the Peoples of the Northern Black Sea Region and the North Caucasus (12th-13th centuries)", which analyzes Byzantine written monuments containing information on the history of the peoples of our country. The author develops important methodological principles of work that make it possible to identify the very reasons for the appearance of this or that information in the source, with a place in the system of author's ideas, the meaning of the context, genre specificity, the stereotype of terminology for evaluating the data obtained. In addition to the named work, the book contains reviews of a number of publications of foreign sources on the history of the peoples of the USSR.

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