“Anderson’s work is still considered unsurpassed today in its main idea and scope - to identify the political and economic structures of Antiquity and trace their conflict dynamics from the emergence of the polis community through three imperial cycles (Athenian, Hellenistic, Roman) through the Dark Ages to the beginning of the Middle Ages. p>It is necessary to read Perry Anderson in Russian not out of perverse nostalgia for the Historical Mathematics, but precisely in order to understand which variants of the Historical Mathematics could not be developed in those very suppressed and stagnant seventies, for which we continue to pay and Today. And it is possible and even better to read simply because rarely anyone explained so succinctly and insightfully what kind of material forces this amazing antiquity exalted, what the Germans and Celts, or the Slavs and the nomadic world of the steppe people had to do with it ... "Edited by D. E. Furman.