The “Slavic issue” and academic archaeology in the Crimea in the aftermath of World War II. To the 120th anniversary of Pavel Nikolaevich Shultz (1901–1983)
Journal: Rossiiskaia arkheologiia
Year: 2021

The actualization of the "Slavic issue" in the post-war Crimea took place at the background of the rise of patriotic sentiments in society. This contributed to the establishment of the Sector of History and Archaeology in the Crimean Research Base at the USSR Academy of Sciences under P.N. Shultz in 1947. The issue in question was developed based on the “Scythian” ethnogenetic myth and autochthonous theories of N.Ya. Marr. The applied task of the studies was to popularize the history of Crimea i