LEO KLEJN’S CORRESPONDENCE WITH YURII ZAKHARUK AND VLADIMIR GENING AS A SOURCE ON THE HISTORY OF SOVIET THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Journal Title: Матеріали і дослідження з археології Прикарпаття і Волині - Year 2017, Vol 21, Issue
Abstract
The article deals with Leo Klejn’s correspondents with Yurii Zakharuk and Vladimir Gening from Leo Klejn’s private archive. All these scholars were the main theorists and organizers of theoretical archaeology in the USSR. I had the owner’s acceptance to make photocopies of letters for further research. There are 31 documents. 24 items are from L. Klejn’s correspondents with Yu. Zakharuk dated predominantly the 1970s and 7 items belongs to L. Klejn’s correspondents with V. Gening written at the beginning of the 1980s and the 1990s. Letters were partly published in L. Klejn’s memoirs. These documents contain information on the initial period of the Soviet theoretical archaeology history when at the beginning of the 1970s theoretical section sessions on Annual Plenums of IA AS of the USSR dedicated to results of 1971 and 1972 field seasons were organized. In my opinion the work of these sessions was evidence that the Soviet theoretical archaeology had formed as a subdiscipline in the USSR. It was an unique phenomenon as the New archaeology was for the West. New facts in the history of theoretical archaeology in the USSR could be established by these sources. There are interrelations between theorists at the beginning of the 1970s – the beginning of the 1990s, their contribution and influence to the archaeological theory development, difficulties with Leo Klejn’s theoretical articles publication and a general situation in this field during referred above period. All these topics will be explored in my further research.
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Sergii Palienko
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