Aleksei P. Okladnikov: The Great Explorer of the Past. Volume I : A biography of a Soviet archaeologist (1900s - 1950s) (Archaeological Lives)

Konopatskii, Aleksander K./ Bland, Richard L. (TRN)/ Kuzmin, Yaroslav V. (TRN)

Access Archaeology（2019/07発売）

Access Archaeology（2019/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 438 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781789692044
• DDC分類 930.1092

Full Description

Aleksei P. Okladnikov: The Great Explorer of the Past is about the life and works of Aleksei P. Okladnikov (1908- 1981), a prominent archaeologist who spent more than 50 years studying prehistoric sites in various parts of the Soviet Union - mainly in Siberia and Central Asia as well as in Mongolia. Okladnikov made numerous fascinating discoveries in the 1930s, including the first Neanderthal remains in the USSR at Teshik Tash (Uzbekistan) and unique figurines at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Buret' in the Angara River basin (Eastern Siberia). His research and achievements are presented on the background of ideological campaigns inspired by the Communist Party in the 1920s-1950s, a subject that is very rarely described in non-Russian sources. Particular attention is given to the debunking of the 'Japhetic theory' and the 'new doctrine of language' developed by Nikolai Y. Marr, an Oriental scholar and specialist in languages who in the 1920s-early 1930s was a formal leader of Soviet archaeology. Marr's principles of linguistic studies were mechanically transmitted to several fields of the humanities, including archaeology, and were mandatory for every Soviet scholar. In 1950 an abrupt end to Marr's theories was enacted by Josef Stalin. Details of these events - important for development of archaeology, ancient history, and linguistics in the USSR - were never previously described.

The book is for archaeologists, historians, and everyone who is interested in the history of scholarship (particularly the humanities) in the twentieth century.

Contents

Translators' introduction (Richard L. Bland and Yaroslav V. Kuzmin) ;

Preface (Elena A. Okladnikova) ;

Aleksei P. Okladnikov and the archaeology of Asia: a brief overview (Yaroslav V. Kuzmin) ;

Academic archaeology in the USSR: science in the service of ideology (Yaroslav V. Kuzmin) ;

The Great Explorer of the Past: Academician A. P. Okladnikov - Pages of Biography (A. K. Konopatski) ;

Foreword ;

The course of an explorer of history ;

Introduction ;

A brief survey of the literature ;

Grandfather and father ;

Ancestors of the maternal line: ancestral miscreant ;

Great grandfather and grandfather ;

The mother ;

School teacher and master of all trades ;

Where was he born? ;

Childhood ;

Strong impressions of childhood ;

The testimony of a fellow villager ;

The testimony of a classmate ;

The information of I. I. Serebrennikov ;

Death of a father and husband ;

A widow's lot ;

Adolescence ;

About studies in Anga and the first finds (from the books of V. E. Larichev and A. P. Derevyanko) ;

Irkutsk ;

Impatience (A small addition to the preceding section) ;

The sister and mother move to Irkutsk ;

Collectivisation ;

Teacher ;

Crisis ;

Creation of a family ;

Information from an eyewitness of the Irkutsk period ;

Debate in the church ;

Why were Aleksei Pavlovich and Mikhail Mikhailovich in dispute ('Look for a Woman') ;

Graduate student ;

A true companion and chief assistant ;

'A rich harvest awaited us' (First expedition to the Amur in 1935) ;

The same without romance and emotions ;

What saved him in the 1930s ;

The first book ;

'Discovery of the century' (Known and unknown about Teshik Tash) ;

The factual side of the story ;

About the duty of the scholar, the power of love, and the clever donkeys ;

Ikram ;

'Gangster' Parfenov ;

The war years ;

The Kolyma ;

The post-war time ;

Unintentional victim of espionage mania ;

The Ashkhabad earthquake ;

The general atmosphere after the war ;

Electoral horrors ;

The 'Leningrad affair' ;

Provocation of Berya's department ;

A. M. Zolotarev ;

Other 'campaigns' ;

The 'dark years' of the Leningrad Branch of the IIMK: what preceded this ;

What they preferred not to remember ;

'Every little bit helps' (A little book for discussion) ;

'Chameleon-like transformations' ;

The chronicle of the discussion ;

Events in Moscow ;

Discussion in Leningrad: the Hermitage ;

Discussion in LO IIMK: general information ;

The insidiousness of the 'great scholar' ;

The discussion in Leningrad: the memories of A. P. Okladnikov ;

The 'sins' of the Leningraders from the point of view of the Muscovites ;

A 'grand inquisitor' by his own free will ;

From the pen of one of the proponents of the pogrom ;

With the eyes of one of the 'Marrists' ;

Repressions and sacrifices: LO IIMK ;

Personal losses ;

'Against the heresy of the senseless...' ;

'The devastating penitential' collection ;

Broken portrait (Recollections from 1953) ;

Hero and prototype (The book of G. Gor) ;

Lev Nikolaevich ;

An addition to 'Lev Nikolaevich' ;

'Everyone looked up' (Egypt) ;

Epilogue ;

Appendices ;

Interview A. P. Okladnikov gave to the wall gazette Letopisets (G. M. Prashkevich, Novosibirsk, December 1976) ;

A. P. Okladnikov's interview for the Literary Gazette ;

Questions for an adult man ;

A. P. Okladnikov, guest of the 13th page (Issue 211) (Z. M. Ibragimova) ;

'Let the archaeologist move restlessly' (1981) (G. Solov'eva) ;

What is the main thing in life? (A. Lobanov) ;

Death, covered with glory (M. D. Brilliant) ;

Encounters with Aleksei Pavlovich Okladnikov (O. M. Adamenko) ;

Always on the search (G. A. Pospelova) ;

Several years of collabouration with Aleksei Pavlovich Okladnikov (Karem Rash) ;

The house in 'Golden Valley' ;

V. Vinogradov ;

V. P. Sysoev ;

B. F. Shubin ;

G. I. Marchuk ;

N. N. Pokrovskii ;

Academician A. P. Okladnikov and the development of Siberian archaeography (A. P. Okladnikov) ;

The knight with the sword and sickle (A. P. Okladnikov) ;

The life and deeds of Ataman Yermak ;

Siberia in the panorama of centuries (abstract) ;

Resolution of the Academic Council of the Leningrad Branch ;

Index