The Slavic Dossier : Medieval Archaeology in the Soviet Republic of Moldova: Between State Propaganda and Scholarly Endeavor.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations and Maps -- Abbreviations -- Annotations and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 The Republic of Moldova: Historical Overview -- 2 Soviet Archaeology-A Simple Ideological Tool? (Theoretical Approach) -- 3 Methodology and Sources -- 4 The Tool Box of Nationalist Ideology -- 5 Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1 The Birth of a Paradigm: Moldovan Archaeology and the Slavic Problem -- Introduction -- 1 Moldovan Archaeology: The Beginnings of a Discipline -- 2 Between Ethnic and Social: Theoretical Framework and Methodological References of Moldovan Archaeology -- 3 The Conquest of a New Territory: The Beginnings of Slavic Archaeology in the MSSR -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Georgiĭ Fedorov and the Building of Slavic Archaeology in the MSSR -- Introduction -- 1 The Intellectual Georgiĭ Fedorov -- 2 Fedorov the Archaeologist: His Training and Know-how -- 3 Why the MSSR? -- 4 Fedorov and the First Generation of Moldovan Medievalist Archaeologists -- 5 The Slavic Saga on the Territory of the MSSR According to Fedorov -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 The Indigenous Character of the Moldovans, a Singular View -- Introduction -- 1 Romanian Archaeology and the Slavic Question -- 2 Relations between Romanian and Soviet Archaeologists -- 3 The Slavic Saga and the Date of the Appearance of the Vlachs on the Territory of the MSSR-the Official Version of the 1960s-1980s -- 4 The "Ion Hîncu" Dossier -- Conclusions -- Conclusions: The Slavic Dossier, Medieval Archaeology in the Soviet Republic of Moldova between State Propaganda and Scholarly Endeavor -- Bibliography -- Oral Sources -- Archival Sources -- Index.

In this volume Iurie Stamati analyzes the archaeological discourse on the place of the old Slavs in the medieval history of Moldova of the Soviet period.

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