{"product_id":"mikhankova-v-nikolai-yakovlevich-marr-an-essay-on-his-life-and-scholarly-activity-nikolai-yakovlevich-marr-ocherk-ego-zhizni-i-nauchnoi-deiatelnosti-1948-in-russian","title":"Mikhankova, V. Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr: An Essay on His Life and Scholarly Activity (Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr. Ocherk ego zhizni i nauchnoi deiatel'nosti). 1948. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eМиханкова, Валентина Александровна. Николай Яковлевич Марр : очерк его жизни и научной деятельности \/ В. А. Миханкова.\u003cbr\u003eМосква ; Ленинград : Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1948. 450, [1] с. : 8 л. ил. ; 22 см.\u003cbr\u003eСерия: Академия наук Союза ССР. Научно-популярная серия. Второе, существенно расширенное издание. Переплёт, титул и заставки работы художника А. С. Данилова. Тираж 5000 экз.\u003cbr\u003eСостояние очень хорошее: переплёт чистый, тиснение чёткое; блок незначительно тонирован, страницы полные; 8 иллюстрационных вставок в наличии.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eMikhankova, Valentina Alexandrovna. Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr: An Essay on His Life and Scholarly Activity \/ V. A. Mikhankova.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow ; Leningrad : Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1948. 450, [1] pp. : 8 plates ; 22 cm.\u003cbr\u003eSeries: Academy of Sciences of the USSR: Popular Science Series. Second, substantially expanded edition (first edition: Moscow-Leningrad: OGIZ-Sotsekgiz, 1935, 360 pp.; third edition: Moscow-Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1949, 571 pp.). Binding, title page, and ornamental headpieces designed by A. S. Danilov. Print run of 5,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eCondition very good: binding clean with crisp gilt lettering; text block lightly and uniformly toned; pages complete; all 8 illustration plates present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNikolai Yakovlevich Marr (1864-1934) was the most powerful and ultimately the most controversial figure in Soviet linguistics: a brilliant Caucasian archaeologist and philologist who excavated the medieval Armenian capital of Ani and pioneered Armenian-Georgian studies, and who in the 1920s-1930s developed the \"Japhetic theory\" of language, which proposed a common ancestor for the Caucasian and ancient Mediterranean languages and reimagined language as a \"superstructural\" category reflecting stages of social development. By the late 1920s, \"Marrism\" had become effectively the state doctrine of Soviet linguistics, enforced with near-ideological authority. Valentina Alexandrovna Mikhankova was a long-term student and collaborator of Marr, and her biography draws on direct personal knowledge, his personal archive, and an unusually extensive collection of rare documentary photographs. The 1948 edition - the second, substantially expanded version of her original 1935 monograph - appeared at the precise historical moment of Marrism's maximum dominance in Soviet intellectual life: just two years later, in June 1950, Stalin personally intervened in a public \"discussion on linguistics\" with his article \"Marxism and Questions of Linguistics,\" which attacked Marrist theory directly and discredited it overnight. This makes the 1948 second edition a remarkable document of Soviet intellectual history: a biography of a scholar at the absolute peak of his posthumous official prestige, written two years before his theories were publicly demolished. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44374105686058,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_4300.jpg?v=1779057405","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/mikhankova-v-nikolai-yakovlevich-marr-an-essay-on-his-life-and-scholarly-activity-nikolai-yakovlevich-marr-ocherk-ego-zhizni-i-nauchnoi-deiatelnosti-1948-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}