Шестидесятники от археологии. Иркутская школа

Abstract

The Sixties is a specific sociocultural phenomenon of Russian (Soviet) history. This term refers to the post-war era of the mid-1950s – late 1960s, and means the generation of the Soviet intelligentsia, born approximately between 1925 and 1945s and formed by them subculture. This concept is used to assess the phenomena and changes associated with literature, art, social processes. Special assessments of this phenomenon in science have not been available yet. Some postmodern approaches are used in the study of sociocultural phenomena during studying the phenomenon of the “sixties” in archeology including the identification of certain cultural concepts and sociopsychological determinants, consideration of the integrity of the phenomenon through the analysis of individual parts in order to provide opportunities for self-identification. The factual base of this article consists of publications, personal knowledge and impressions of the author. After the “defeat” of the Petri’s Irkutsk archaeological school in the 1930s, and until the mid-1950s. archaeology at Irkutsk State University was in a flickering state. Since mid-1950s began the Renaissance of the Irkutsk archaeological school. The dotted lines of connections from the Petri school through his scholarly M. M. Gerasimov and the “guardians” of traditions of N. A. Florensov and S. V. Shostakovich associated with the Petri school were realized in the formation of a team of young researchers and the creation of a stable system of scientific archaeological research at the Irkutsk University. The activities of the new generation of the Irkutsk archaeological school were expressed in field researches, in the development of methods, approaches and concepts, in publication activity, in international relations, in the creation of corporate entities as special structures and training systems. This activity reflects all sociopsychological determinants and cultural concepts that are characteristic of the generation of the sixties in different areas of the existing Soviet society. The nature of this activity can be defined as a new “discovery” of Siberia - archaeological. This activity formed the basis for the development of archaeological science at Irkutsk State University, the implementation of which is ongoing today.