Pertsev D.M. The Alternatives of Social Evolution: Сhiefdoms, Analogs and the Early States or Why Marx’s Theory Doesn’t Explain Process of State Formation in the Worldстатья
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Аннотация:The rise of states in various regions of the world is one of the essential problems of Soviet and modern Russian social science. In the USSR, this process was studied within the framework of a single-line Marxist scheme, explaining the emergence of states by a change in the types of management, the emergence of private property and, as a result, the split of societies into classes. But by the current time, thanks to processual archeology and neo-evolutionary anthropology, revealed a plurality of ways and options to complex, but non-state systems. Thus, at the present stage, politogenesis turns out to be nothing more than a process of forming a complex political organization of any type, and not just a state. After the collapse of the USSR and the rejection of Marxism, analysts, and, of course, historians face the question of developing an alternative methodology for interpreting the political genesis of early class societies. A way out of the impasse may be the study of precapitalist political systems in various regions of the world from the standpoint of neo-evolutionism.