Проблемы периодизации и принципы выделения этапов истории древности в отечественной науке ХХ–XXI вв. Часть 2

Вестник древней истории. 2023. Т. 83. № 3. С. 657–682.

Ladynin I. A.

The second part of the article considers approaches to the definition of large epochs of the ancient history in the Late Soviet scholarship of 1960–1980s: the economically based definition of the epochs of large centralized estates (the third mil-lennium BC), of the parceled economy (the second millennium BC) and of the ‘privatized’ economy (the first millennium BC); the definition of important spiritual trends at the ‘Axial time’ and at the end of antiquity; the use of new ethnological and archaeological achievements in characterizing the state-formation. The post-Soviet time saw a halt of the theoretical discussions in the domain of the ancient history. The prospect of researching the boundaries inside the ancient history seems to be connected with accounting for the factors of industry, climate and migrations as well as the factors determining the shifts in the worldview at the ‘Axial time’. The end of the ancient history probably depended not so much on the internal evolution of ancient societies as on the series of hammering that came on them from the outside.

Keywords: советская историография, antiquity, soviet historiography, periodization of history, Post-Soviet Historiography, постсоветская историография, древность, периодизация всемирной истории