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本节包括两个文件,说明早期拜占庭帝国內阶级斗争的尖锐程度。文件(Ⅰ)——摘自普洛科比阿的“波斯战争史”——说明在查士丁尼时代(527——565年)君士坦丁堡的尼卡起义(532年)。普洛科比阿是著明的拜占庭官方史家。在本文里,他描写尼卡起义的全部过程,从开始到结束,表明上层统治集团的腐败情形,市民所受的残酷剥削,群众(包括若干元老在内)反抗政府的激昂情绪,以及镇压“叛乱”的血腥行动。他称这起义为“叛乱”,起义者为“暴徒”;但从性质来看,它是一次壮大的民众起义,一次激烈的阶级斗争;
This section contains two documents that illustrate the sharpness of the class struggle in the early Byzantine Empire. Document (I) - Excerpt from “The History of the Persian War” in Procopia - Illustrates the Nicca Uprising (532) in Constantinople in the Justinian Period (527-565). Prokobiah is the Byzantine official historian. In this article, he describes the entire process of the uprising in Nicaca. From the beginning to the end, he shows the corruption of the upper ruling clique, the brutal exploitation of the public, the heated sentiment of the masses (including certain elders) against the government and the suppression of “ Rebellion ”bloody action. He called the insurrection “insurrection” and the insurrection as “thugs”; but by its nature it was a massive popular uprising and a fierce class struggle;