"Drevniy Mir" (The Ancient World): Essays in Honor of Academician V. V. Struve. Moscow, 1962. In Russian.

Древний мир : сборник статей [посвящается академику В. В. Струве] / редакционная коллегия: член-корреспондент Академии наук СССР Н. В. Пигулевская, Д. П. Каллистов, И. С. Кацнельсон, М. А. Коростовцев ; Академия наук СССР, Институт народов Азии.
Москва : Издательство восточной литературы, 1962. 658 страниц; 27 см.
Твердый издательский переплет. Тираж 2100 экземпляров.
Состояние очень хорошее: легкая потертость по краям; блок чистый и полный, титул и портретная вклейка не повреждены.
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"Drevniy Mir" (The Ancient World): Collected Essays Dedicated to Academician V. V. Struve / editorial board: N. V. Pigulevskaya (corresponding member, USSR Academy of Sciences), D. P. Kallistov, I. S. Katsnelson, M. A. Korostovtsev ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Peoples of Asia.
Moscow : Izdatelstvo Vostochnoi Literatury (Publishing House of Eastern Literature), 1962. 658 pp.; 27 cm.
Publisher's hardcover. Print run of 2,100 copies.
Condition very good: light edge wear; text block clean and complete, title page and plate leaves unaffected.

A major festschrift honoring Vasily Vasilievich Struve (1889-1965), the founder of the modern Soviet school of Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptological studies and the scholar whose 1930s formulation of the "Asiatic mode of production" debate reshaped Soviet historiography of the ancient world. Compiled under the editorship of the Semitist and Byzantinist Nina Pigulevskaya together with Kallistov, Katsnelson, and the Egyptologist Mikhail Korostovtsev, the volume opens with a tribute to Struve and a full bibliography of his works, followed by two large sections: "The Ancient Orient," covering Egypt and Africa, the Near East, Iran and Central Asia, and India and the Far East, and "The Ancient World and the Northern Black Sea Region," covering Greek and Roman antiquity and the Black Sea colonies, closing with a study by Dmitry Likhachev on textual criticism of Old Russian literary monuments. The contributor list represents the full breadth of Soviet Oriental and classical scholarship at its Khrushchev-era peak, among them Vsevolod Avdiev, Igor Diakonoff-adjacent Egyptologists Oleg Berlev and Isidor Katsnelson, the Assyriologist Amusin, the Iranist Mikhail Boghoslovsky, and classicists Solomon Utchenko and Elena Staerman, alongside a notable roster of Western contributors published in their own languages, including the American Egyptologist Rudolf Anthes, the French Egyptologists Étienne Drioton and Jean Leclant, the American Sumerologist Samuel Noah Kramer, and the East German classicist Johannes Irmscher. This unusual internationalism, rare for a Soviet academic volume of the period, reflects Struve's own standing as a scholar recognized across Cold War lines. Issued in a modest run of 2,100 copies, the volume remains a core reference collection for historians of the ancient Near East, Egyptology, Iranian and Central Asian studies, and classical antiquity, and a landmark artifact of Soviet Oriental studies at the moment of its greatest postwar international engagement.