EARLY STATE: ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION

Abstract

The article discusses a theory of Asiatic mode of production. This theory had a great influence on the development of historiographic and sociological science thoughts of the 19th-20th centuries. The theory of Asiatic mode of production proposed by Marx in the Soviet years was under ideological and political pressure, and its discussion was interrupted twice - in the 1930s and 1960s. Nevertheless, indirect developments of this theory had a great influence on the development of Oriental studies in the USSR. Many points of Marxian theory are now outdated, but still it is being discussed both in the post-Soviet space and in Western science.

Keywords

• marxism
• asiatic mode of production
• orientalism
• oriental despotism
• genesis of state
• soviet ideology