Before the city, before the state: the culture of the East Slavic community

Abstract

The article is devoted to the genesis of culture of an East Slavic community up to origin of the cities and the state in Ancient Russia. Reconstruction of a social and economic, political system of the ancient village and religious and moral image of the first peasants in the territory of future Old Russian state is presented.

Keywords

• the culture of ancient russia
• east slavic community
• genesis of the russian culture
• religion of ancient slavs
• rural culture