伟大的十月革命以后,在二十年代末期的苏联出版物中,第一批研究拉丁美洲大陆史的著作诞生了。在苏联着手进行拉丁美洲调查之初,苏联专家就注意到了前哥伦布时期。1924至1925年间,苏联已经把一名西班牙征服者贝尔纳尔·迪亚斯·德尔卡斯蒂略的两卷编年史译成了通畅的俄文。在三十至四十年代,苏联科学家就试图描述一些古代文化,特别是印加和玛雅的文化,评价它们 After the great October Revolution, in the Soviet Union publications of the late twenties, the first books to study the history of the Latin American continent were born. At the beginning of the Soviet investigation into Latin America, Soviet experts noticed the pre-Columbian period. Between 1924 and 1925, the Soviet Union had translated two volumes of chronicles of Bernard Dias Del Castillo, a Spanish conquistador, into unobstructed Russian. In the 1940s and 1940s, Soviet scientists tried to describe some ancient cultures, especially the Inca and Mayan cultures, evaluating them