Abstract
Though the historical researches in the Soviet Union came to attract attention through its translation and introduction, vet they are not throughly known to Japan.
The article by K. M. Kolobova and L. N. Kazamanoba on the city law of Gortyna, Crete, tries to go through the process of constructing classical slavery society founded on the dissolution of the primitive community through the city law and comes to the conclusion that the word "slavery" «δοςυλο ?? » is not yet be used as contrasting with "free men" and the words implicating the category of subordination are so much used.
And I mentioned the articles by E. L. Kazakevitch trying to argue that the multifariousness of the words meaning "slavery" reflects vice versa the clear class opposition between the slavery and free men and deepens it more. But on account of spaces given I want to introduce their details on other chance.
Finally I listed the articles of Soviet scholars relating to the Greek-Roman history.
I should be happy to be of service to the Japanese scholars for information on the academic situation of ancient history in the Soviet Union.
