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N. la. Marr and the National Origins of Soviet Ethnogenetics

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Yuri Slezkine
Yuri Slezkine*
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Whatever about the soundness of de Selby's theories, there is ample evidence that they were honestly held and that several attempts were made to put them into practice.

Flann O'Brian, The Third Policeman

The world consists of nations. Nations are communities united by a common name, state, language, territory, culture, and physical type. Nations are defined by their origins. Yet the origins of the name, state, language, territory, culture, and physical type may have nothing to do with each other. Such was the Great Ethnological Predicament, discovered and sometimes discussed by eighteenth-century scholars as they pursued Jean Le Rond D'Alembert's “art of reducing, as far as possible, a great number of phenomena to a single one which can be regarded as the principle of them.”

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Slavic Review , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , Winter 1996 , pp. 826 - 862
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I am grateful to Sergei Arutiunov, Daniel Brower, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Francine Hirsch, Alexander Kazhdan, Johanna Nichols, Ethan Pollock, Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Alexander Vucinich, Reginald Zelnik, and to the anonymous reviewers for Slavic Review for offering stimulating comments and helpful suggestions. I apologize to one of the anonymous reviewers for my inability to follow the excellent recommendations and still retain the article's original focus and size.

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19. N. la. Marr, “K voprosu o zadachakh armianovedeniia” (1899), IR 1: 17; Marr, “Vvedenie k rabote ‘Opredelenie iazyka vtoroi kategorii Akhmenidskikh klinoobraznykh nadpisei po dannym iafeticheskogo iazykoznaniia'” (1912), IR 1: 50–51; Marr, “Ob iafeticheskoi teorii” (1924), IR 3: 1. Political anticolonialism becomes a dominant theme in early 1920 (see Marr, “Iafeticheskii Kavkaz i tretii etnicheskii element v sozidanii sredizemnomorskoi kul'tury,” IR 1: 90–93), but a vigorous dislike of the linguistic establishment and a conviction that true scholarship is guided by “the innate feeling of affection for one's native antiquities and folktales” animates Marr's earliest work (the quote is from Marr's speech at his dissertation defense in May 1899, IR 1: 18).

20. Marr, “Ob iafeticheskoi teorii,” IR 3: 1.

21. Ibid., 3: 49. See also P. S. Kuznetsov, “Oshibki N. la. Marra v ego vzgliadakh na rodstvo i istoricheskoe razvitie iazykov,” in Vinogradov and Serebrennikov, eds., Protiv vul'garizatsii, 2: 210–12.

22. N. la. Marr, “Chem zhivet iafeticheskoe iazykoznanie?” (1921), IR 1: 176; Marr, “Ob iafeticheskoi teorii,” IR 3: 1.

23. Marr, “Chem zhivet,” IR 1: 177. Cf. a recent feminist restatement of this thesis in Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess (San Francisco, 1989), xxi: “We are still living under the sway of that aggressive male [i.e., Indo-European] invasion and only beginning to discover our long alienation from our authentic European Heritage— gylanic, nonviolent, earth-centered culture.” The coinage “gylanic” denotes sexual equality. See also Anthony, David W., “Nazi and EcoFeminist Prehistories: Ideology and Empiricism in Indo-European Archaeology,” in Kohl, Philip L. and Fawcett, Clare, eds., Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology (Cambridge, Eng., 1995), 82–.Google Scholar

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27. “The Great Ethnological Predicament” is my own term, of course, but the feeling that nations and their origins were in theoretical trouble was quite widespread if not always clearly defined.

28. Girke and Jachnow, Sowjetische Soziolinguistik, 18–50; Smith, “Soviet Language Frontiers,” 101–23. The last quote is from E. D. Polivanov, “Gde lezhat prichiny iazykovoi evoliutsii,” in E. D. Polivanov, Stat'ipo obshchemu iazykoznaniiu (Moscow, 1968), 75–89.

29. Trubetskoi, N. S., “Vavilonskaia bashnia i smeshenie iazykov” (first published in 1923), in Ponomareva, L. V., ed., Evraziia: Istoricheskie vzgliady russkikh emigrantov (Moscow, 1992), 143.Google Scholar

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31. Marr, N. la., “Predislovie k ‘Iafeticheskomu sborniku, t. V” (1927), IR 1: 251.Google Scholar

32. Marr, N. la., “Iafetidologiia v Leningradskom gosudarstvennom universitete” (1930), IR 1: 255.Google Scholar

33. Marr, N. la., “Predvaritel'noe soobshchenie o rodstve gruzinskogo iazyka s semiticheskimi” (1908), IR 1: 23–38Google Scholar; the quote is from 1: 24. For a detailed critique of Marr's methodology, see Thomas, The Linguistic Theories ofN.Ja. Marr, 5–18. Also Girke and Jachnow, Sowjetische Soziolinguislik, 50–62.

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35. Leonti, Mroveli, Zhizn’ karlliiskikh tsarei, trans, and ed. Tsualaia, G. B. (Moscow, 1979), 21 Google Scholar. I am grateful to Sergei Arutiunov for pointing out the connection.

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40. Marr, N. la., Kavkaz i pamiatniki ego dukhovnoi kul'tury: Perepechatano iz lzvestii Akademii nauk za 1912 god (Petrograd, 1919), 15–16Google Scholar. See also Marr, N. la., Ob istokakh tvorchestva Rustaveli i ego poeme (Tbilisi, 1964)Google Scholar, esp. 17–42; Aptekar', N. la. Marr, 22–25, 32; Mikhankova, Nikolai Iakovlevich Marr, 134–35, 143, 239–45. Marr's pan-Caucasian patriotism became a substantial political asset after the formation of the Transcaucasian Federation in 1922.

41. Mroveli, Zhizn’ kartliiskikh tsarei, 21.

42. Quoted in Thomas, The Linguistic Theories of N.Ja. Marr, 23, 30 (emphasis in the original). Cf. Trubetskoi: “In matters of the ‘soul’ Slavs were drawn toward Indo-Iranians; in matters of the ‘body’ … to the western Indo-Europeans.” Proof: “Among specific coincidences of Proto-Slavic and Proto-Iranian lexicons, the terms referring, one way or another, to religious feelings, represent a very significant proportion. Specific coincidences of the Proto-Slavic and Western European [sic] languages are of a completely different nature. There may be more of them than between Proto-Slavic and Proto-Indo-Iranian, but … words to do with technology predominate decisively.” N. S. Trubetskoi, “Verkhi i nizy russkoi kul'tury (Etnicheskaia osnova russkoi kul'tury),” in Iskhod k Vostoku, 91–92. For an analogous (one might say, “Eurarabic “) construct elsewhere in Europe, see Margarita Díaz-Andreu, “Islamic Archaeology and the Origin of the Spanish Nation,” in Díaz-Andreu and Champion, eds., Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe, 78–79.

43. Marr, Kavkaz i pamiatniki, 19. Also Marr, “K voprosu o zadachakh armianovedeniia, “/# 1: 20.

44. Marr, “K voprosu o zadachakh armianovedeniia,” IR 1: 20; N. la. Marr, “O Chanskom iazyke” (1910), IR 1: 39; Marr, “Kavkazovedenie i abkhazskii iazyk,” IR 1: 69.

45. Marr, “Kavkazovedenie i abkhazskii iazyk,” IR 1: 69.

46. Ibid.

47. Thomas, The Linguistic Theories of N.Ja. Marr, 28–34.

48. Marr, “Iafeticheskii Kavkaz i tretii etnicheskii element,” IR 1: 90–91. The “madman” quote is from another one of Marr's ironic self-characterizations; see “Iafetidologiia v Leningradskom gosudarstvennom universitete,” IR 1: 255.

49. Thomas, The Linguistic Theories ofN.Ja. Marr, 48–51.

50. Marr, “Iafeticheskii Kavkaz i tretii etnicheskii element,” IR 1: 94, 116.

51. Ibid., 1: 118–20, 110–11.

52. Ibid., 1: 120–21.

53. Ibid., 1: 91.

54. Ibid., 1: 121.

55. N. la. Marr, “Predislovie k nemetskomu izdaniiu raboty ‘Iafeticheskii Kavkaz i tretii etnicheskii element v sozidanii sredizemnomorskoi kul'tury “’ (1923), IR 1: 151.

56. Marr, “Iafeticheskii Kavkaz i tretii etnicheskii element,” IR 1: 98–101, 116–17.

57. Ibid., 1: 98, 116, 101.

58. N. la. Marr, “Knizhnye legendy ob osnovanii Kuara v Armenii i Kieva na Rusi” (1922), IR 5: 65; N. la. Marr, “Iafetidy” (1922), IR 1: 133.

59. Marr, “Predislovie k nemetskomu izdaniiu,” IR 1: 151; Thomas, The Linguistic Theories of N.Ja. Marr, 85–86.

60. N. la. Marr, “Sena, Liutetsiia i pervye obitateli Gallii—etruski i pelasgi” (1922), IR 1: 138–43, 147; Thomas, The Linguistic Theories of N. Ja. Marr, 55; I. K. Zborovskii, “N. la. Marr i ukrainskii iazyk,” Iazyk i myshlenie 8 (1937): 36–38; V. D. Levin, “Kritika vzgliadov N. la. Marra i ego posledovatelei na proiskhozhdenie russkogo iazyka,” in Vinogradov and Serebrennikov, eds., Protiv vul'garizatsii, 1: 244–46.

61. Marr was not the only national chronicler bent on retroactive greatness—just the best placed and most successful. For similar scholarly efforts on behalf of the Tatars, Chuvash, Mari, and Belorussians, see Victor A. Shnirelman, “The Faces of Nationalist Archaeology in Russia,” in Díaz-Andreu and Champion, eds., Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe, 226–30. Outside the USSR, it was probably Heinrich Himmler's one-time favorite Herman Wirth who came closest to Marr in both style and spirit. In his 1928 Der Aufgang der Menschheit, Wirth announced his discovery of a primeval “Atlanto-Nordic” race that had taken advantage of its “metaphysicaltranscendental” gift in order to fulfill its “world-historical mission” of spawning all the known world cultures. (In 1938, Wirth was dropped by the Nazis in favor of the much less inclusive Hans Reinerth.) See Wawjorra, “German Archaeology,” 180–82. The term for this condition is Goropianism (after Goropius Becanus who traced all languages to Dutch). Another prominent victim was the founder of Indo-Europeanism, James Parsons, who derived the whole family from Irish.

62. N. la. Marr, “Terminy iz abkhazo-russkikh etnicheskikh sviazei ‘Loshad'’ i ‘trizna'” (1924), IR 5: 119.

63. Marr, , “Znachenie i rol’ izucheniia natsmen'shinstva,” IR 1: 241 Google Scholar; Marr, N. la., “Osnovnye dostizheniia iafeticheskoi teorii” (1924), IR 1: 197.Google Scholar

64. For the relationship between Marxism and Soviet science, see, in particular, Loren R. Graham, Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union (New York, 1987); David Joravsky, Soviet Marxism and Natural Science 1917–1932 (New York, 1961); David Joravsky, Russian Psychology: A Critical History (Oxford, 1989); and Alexander Vucinich, Empire of Knowledge: The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1917–1970) (Berkeley, 1984), esp. 149–70. For the rise of the “sociological method” in Soviet linguistics, see Girke and Jachnow, Sowjetische Soziolinguistik, 16–50; Smith, “Soviet Language Frontiers,” 87–106; and Samuelian, “The Search for a Marxist Linguistics,” 255–63, 278–80.

65. Clark, Petersburg, 218; Gorbanevskii, M. V., V nachale bylo slovo … Maloizvestnye stranitsy istorii sovetskoi lingvistiki (Moscow, 1991), 42–45Google Scholar; Samuelian, “The Search for a Marxist Linguistics,” 272, 309; Thomas, The Linguistic Theories of N.Ja. Marr, 89.

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67. The unity of language and thought was a crucial revolutionary—and later Stalinist—concept. By transforming language, one transformed thought, and ultimately reality. See Clark, Petersburg, 201–23.

68. N. la. Marr, “Obshchii kurs ucheniia ob iazyke” (1927), IR 2: 85–86.

69. N. la. Marr, “Lingvisticheski namechaemye epokhi razvitiia chelovechestva i ikh uviazka s istoriei material'noi kul'tury” (1926), IR 3: 57.

70. N. la. Marr, “Aktual'nye problemy i ocherednye zadachi iafeticheskoi teorii” (1928), IR 3: 71. See also Marr, “Pochemu tak trudno stat’ lingvistom-teoretikom,” IR 2: 405.

71. Thomas, The Linguistic Theories of N. Ja. Marr, 103–7.

72. N. la. Marr, “Postanovka ucheniia ob iazyke v mirovom masshtabe i abkhazskii iazyk” (1928), IR 4: 58.

73. Marr, “Avtobiografiia,” IR 1: 11.

74. Marr, “Postanovka ucheniia ob iazyke,” IR 4: 61.

75. Marr, “Pochemu tak trudno stat’ lingvistom-teoretikom,” IR 2: 415.

76. N. la. Marr, “Iazyk i myshlenie” (1931), IR 3: 121.

77. Ibid., 3: 118.

78. Ibid., 3: 111–12. Cf. Thomas, The Linguistic Theories ofN.Ja. Marr, 108–11.

79. Marr's overview of his new doctrine was delivered as a series of lectures at the State University of Azerbaijan in Baku in 1927 and published in 1928. See Marr, “Obshchii kurs,” IR 2: 3–126, and Mikhankova, Nikolai Iakovlevich Marr, 341.

80. See Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual (Chicago, 1981), 114–29.

81. Marr's prose is frequently and not always deliberately at odds with Russian grammar and “formal logical thinking “; his lectures appear to have been virtually incomprehensible (see “Iz vospominanii o N. la. Marre,” Problemy islorii dokapitalisticheskikh obshchestv 3–4 (1935): 158.

82. Marr, “Ob iafeticheskoi teorii,” IR 3: 31; A. V. Desnitskaia, “O roli antimarksistskoi teorii proiskhozhdeniia iazyka v obshchei sisteme vzgliadov N. la. Marra,” in Vinogradov and Serebrennikov, eds., Protiv vul'garizatsii, 1: 49–51.

83. For an extremely interesting examination of Marr, Bakhtin, and Lysenko as representatives of a “neo-Romantic” strain within the late avant-garde, see Boris Gasparov, “Development or Rebuilding: Views of Academician T. D. Lysenko in the Context of the Late Avant-Garde,” in John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich, eds., Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde (Stanford, forthcoming). Also Ivanov, V. V., Ocherki po islorii semiotiki v SSSR (Moscow, 1976), 12–65.Google Scholar

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90. As Marr's main spokesman in Moscow, V. B. Aptekar', explained at the Sociology Section of the Society of Marxist Historians (7 May 1928), “If you look into the history of ethnology, you'll see that it was created by priests, missionaries, merchants, slave owners, and travelers who founded colonies.” Arkhiv Rossiiskoi akademii nauk (Arkhiv RAN), f. 377, op. 2, d. 115, 1. 88. See also d. 130, 11. 2–38; d. 139, 11. 7–20; and op. 4, d. 29, 1. 12.

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