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Russian history provides a convenient case-study for the comparison of two historiographical approaches: the one emphasizing the universal and immanent laws of social production, the other (with roots both in Marx and in nineteenth-century Russian historiography), emphasizing geographical and historical pluralism, particularly as existing between Western European and Asiatic societies.
For Western Europe and its peoples nature was a mother; for the East and the peoples destined to act out their history there it was a step-mother.
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© 1977 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Sawer, M. (1977). Marxist Perspectives on Russian History: The Practical Application of the Concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production. In: Marxism and the Question of the Asiatic Mode of Production. Studies in Social History, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9685-4_5
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