Meeting the Hard Line: Western Marxism, The Making of the English Working Class, and the Communist historiographies of GDR, Czechoslovakia, and Poland

Abstract

On the example of a seminal work produced by English marxist historiography, the article compares the contacts and impact of the western Marxism on the historiographies of the GDR, Poland and Czechoslovaka.

Keywords

• History of Historiography
• State Socialism
• Marxism