Alexander Dmitriyevich Udaltsov (; – 25 September 1958) was a Russian medieval historian. Much of his writing concerns the

medieval period In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ...

Western Europe Western Europe is the western region of Europe. The region's extent varies depending on context. The concept of "the West" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition to "the East" and originally applied to the Western half of the ancient Mediterranean ...

, but he also wrote about the methodology of

historical materialism Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory of history. Marx located historical change in the rise of Class society, class societies and the way humans labor together to make their livelihoods. Karl Marx stated that Productive forces, techno ...

archeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeolo ...

and the

ethnogenesis Ethnogenesis (; ) is the formation and development of an ethnic group. This can originate by group self-identification or by outside identification. The term ''ethnogenesis'' was originally a mid-19th-century neologism that was later introduce ...

of the Slavs. In 1908, he married the artist Nadezhda Andreyevna Prudkovskaya. She was known throughout her career as Nadezhda Udaltsova, although she divorced David and married Alexander Drevin in 1919. He wrote about the Agrarian History of Carolingian Flanders criticising the views of the Austrian social and economic historian Alfons Dopsch. He argued that Dopsch overemphasized the presence of private land ownership and

social inequality Social inequality occurs when resources within a society are distributed unevenly, often as a result of inequitable allocation practices that create distinct unequal patterns based on socially defined categories of people. Differences in acce ...

among pre-feudal German clans.

Works

"Происхождение славян"
(Origin of the Slavs), ''

Voprosy Istorii ''Voprosy Istorii'' (Russian: ''Вопросы истории'', translated ''Questions of History'') is a Russian academic journal for historical studies. It is published monthly by the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Scienc ...

'' No. 7 1947 pp 95-100

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Udaltsov, Alexander 1883 births 1958 deaths Imperial Moscow University alumni Historical materialism Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Voprosy Istorii editors Historians from the Russian Empire Soviet historians