The book of the St. Petersburg historian A.Yu. Dvornichenko is devoted to a large and still discussion problem of the development of the social system and the state in ancient Rus’. The theme of the book fully applies to both the history of Belarus and the history of Russia.
This publication included the text of a candidate dissertation, which was protected by the author in 1984, written on the basis of the study of city communities of the Polotsk and Smolensk lands in the XI-XV centuries. The book includes all the discussions at the dissertation council, reviews and performances of opponents, the answers of the dissertation. It is equipped with modern preface and afterword of the author. The text of the dissertation was not published, but A.Yu. Dvornchenko developed the provisions of his work for thirty years of scientific activity. The investigation of the author retains its relevance today, when the domestic history is experiencing the stage of rethinking. In addition, the publication of discussion materials is also of serious historiographic significance, since it clearly characterizes the state about …
Author
Dvornichenko Andrey Yuryevich
Publisher
The whole world, 2013
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