Ranovich, A. Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire in the 1st-3rd Centuries (Vostochnye provintsii Rimskoy imperii v I-III vv.). 1949. In Russian.

Ранович, А. Восточные провинции Римской империи в I-III вв. / ответственный редактор проф. Н. А. Машкин ; Академия наук СССР, Институт истории.
Москва - Ленинград : Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1949. 262, [2] страницы.
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Ranovich, A. (Abram). Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire in the I-III Centuries / responsible editor prof. N. A. Mashkin ; Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of History.
Moscow - Leningrad : Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1949. 262, [2] pages.
Hardcover. Standard format. Print run of 4,000 copies.
Front cover bears a previous owner's small pen mark at the top margin.
Binding good: moderate edge and spine wear, light soiling to the cloth. Text block good: firm, even age-toning to the paper, leaves clean throughout.

Abram Borisovich Ranovich (1885-1948) was a prominent Soviet historian of classical antiquity, Hellenism, and early Christianity. Published posthumously in 1949 under the editorship of the eminent classical scholar N. A. Mashkin, this monograph is considered one of Ranovich's most significant contributions to Roman history. The book provides a comprehensive socioeconomic and political analysis of the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, including Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Greece, during the first three centuries CE. Ranovich meticulously examines the complex processes of Romanization, local resistance, the specific nature of slave-owning societies in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the cultural synthesis that ultimately laid the groundwork for the Byzantine Empire. Issued by the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR with a print run of 4,000 copies, this work became a foundational text in post-war Soviet classical historiography. Surviving copies often suffer from the degradation of the acidic post-war paper; however, this copy presents a firm text block and clean pages, making it a valuable acquisition for scholars of ancient history, classical antiquity, and the historiography of the Roman East.