Background
Dunn, Stephen Porter was born on March 24, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Leslie Clarence and Louise (Porter) Dunn.
( This reissue was first published in 1982. It deals spec...)
This reissue was first published in 1982. It deals specifically with the ‘Asiatic mode of production’ described by Karl Marx in his basic evolutionary model for human society. The term defines a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive intervention by the state in all forms of social life. In the soviet Union, the concept has had a chequered and controversial career: leading writers, primarily Stalin, have denied its very existence, mobilizing the heavy artillery of state ideology in their defence, whilst later scholars show signs of reversing this trend. Drawing on a large body of Soviet writing on historiography, Stephen Dunn develops a critical analysis of the issue, and introduces important corrections to the accounts hitherto available in the West. His work should be of major interest to students of Soviet politics, economists and Marxists.
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Dunn, Stephen Porter was born on March 24, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Leslie Clarence and Louise (Porter) Dunn.
He was educated at Lincoln School of Columbia University, Columbia College, and Columbia University, where he received his Ph.
He translated and edited a number of works on the topic from the Russian language, and lectured in several universities. Apart from his involvement with academia, he was a poet and issued several collections of verse. The youngest of two sons of geneticist L. C. Dunn and Louise P. Dunn, Stephen struggled throughout his life with cerebral palsy.
Doctorate. in anthropology in 1959.
Margaret Mead was on his thesis committee. Stephen P. Dunn"s earliest publications were books of poetry, including, as South. P. Dunn, Some Watercolors from Venice (1956), and ending with The Recluse and Other Poems (1999).
Several of his scholarly publications, some of them with his father L. C. Dunn, were devoted to the Roman Jews. He also wrote over 100 articles, book reviews, and commentary.
In spite of a widely held opinion that due to his disease, Stephen P. Dunn could not teach, he did teach courses in the peoples of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (at Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, 1970-1974, at the University of California, Berkeley, 1980, and San Francisco State University) and comparative religion.
The latter was known to give him particular satisfaction, since it was his favorite field Foreign 25 years starting in 1962, he was the editor of Soviet Anthropology and Archeology and Soviet Sociology, translation journals published by M. East. Sharpe, Incorporated. He translated from Russian, Manitoba and His Work (1970, which he also edited), Soviet Far East in Antiquity (1965), and Yakutia Before its Incorporation into the Russian State (1970) by A. P. Okladnikov, as well as three books by Alexander Yanov, The Russian New Right (1978), The Origins of Autocracy (1981), and The Drama of the Soviet 1960s: A Lost Reform (1984).
He edited a number of translations, including The Peoples of Siberia (1964), Introduction to Soviet Ethnography (two volumes, with Ethel Dunn, 1974), Ethel Dunn"s translation of A. I. Klibanov, The History of Religious Sectarianism in Russia (1860"s-1917) (1981), and he revised the English translation of Popular Beliefs and Folklore Traditions in Siberia, edited by V. Dioszegi (1968).
lieutenant was very unusual for disabled people to be married, and even more unusual for them to marry each other.
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Fellow American Anthropological Association.
Married Ethel Deikman, October 6, 1956.