The processes of the social relationmodernization among the Eastern Slavs in the period precedingto the establishment of the ancient Russian state are reported in the article.
proto-Slavic tribes, byzantine history, natural factors, Greek-Roman colonization, ethnic neighbors, paganism, Russian writing, technological and cultural modernization
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