Второй марксизм: история сборника "Проблемы истории докапиталистических обществ" в письмах и документах

Новое литературное обозрение. 2024. Т. 189. № 5. С. 45–60.

Алымов С. С.

The article examines the history of the edited volume
“Problems of the History of Pre-Capitalist Societies”,
which was conceived as a series, but only one issue
was published. The author shows that in connection
with the publication of this volume a circle around
its editor-in-chief, Luidmila V. Danilova, developed
a net work of informal contacts and correspondence
that brought together scholars of several disciplines
interested in the theoretical constructions around
the notion of “primitive society”. The author conclu -
des that this group is an example of the “Second
Marxism” in the USSR, i.e. a group of scholars and
“people of the 60s” who sought to rethink the Marxist
understanding of history through a critical reading of
the works of Marx and Engels, new scientific data,
and a revision of the Stalinist version of historical
materialism.

Keywords: этнография, ethnography, Marxism, первобытное общество, шестидесятники, history of humanities, гуманитарная наука, Soviet "Sixtiers", марксизм