Archaeology and State Power in the USSR of the 1920s: In Search for New Scientific Ideology
Journal: Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences
Year: 2018

In the early 1920-s the Soviet state became a single possible sponsor for the archaeological science and protection of national cultural monuments. Its interest in these spheres was merely pragmatic, concerned either with political and ideological development or economical needs. Nevertheless from July 1922, a guideline became firmly established in the Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture for the practical cooperation with the state power. This guideline initiated the development o