Alexander Dmitriyevich Udaltsov (russian: Александр Дмитриевич Удальцов; – 25 September 1958) was a historian. Much of his writing concerns the

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, but he also wrote about the methodology of

historical materialism Historical materialism is the term used to describe Karl Marx's theory of history. Marx locates historical change in the rise of class societies and the way humans labor together to make their livelihoods. For Marx and his lifetime collaborat ...

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and the

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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

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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 over emphasised the presence of private land ownership and

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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