Goths and Slavs. On the Path to Statehood. III–IV centuries.

The study is dedicated to the development of early statehood of the Goths in Eastern Europe in the III-IV centuries. Special attention is paid to two Gothic pre-state formations (polities): the Goti of the Tervingians and the kingdom of the... Greuthungi. For the first time in domestic and foreign historiography, a comparison of these two Gothic polities is made between themselves and their general comparison with the Slavic polities of the same period. The use of almost the complete set of written sources on Gothic history, a critical approach to recent research, as well as methods of foreign and domestic political anthropology allowed the author to contribute to the resolution of problems of the late Antiquity and early Middle Ages, which provided grounds to shift the time of the emergence of the first proto-Slavic power structures in Eastern Europe approximately to the 2nd century and to put forward their own concept of early statehood.
The work is aimed at specialists engaged in the problems of late Antiquity, the era of the Great Migration of Peoples, and the early Middle Ages, as well as a wide range of readers.