The Nation Should Come First
Marxism and Historiography in East Central Europe
Abstract
By the second half of the 1940s, newly conquered nations of Central and Eastern Europe were expected to adjust multiple professions, including those related to the historical sciences, to the Soviet model. However, Marxism, soon to become the only acceptable methodology, was no longer understood in the same way as in Bolshevik Russia. Its Soviet variation borrowed heavily from the tradition of Russian historiography and the Russian national tradition. The variations formulated in the satellite countries were also less likely to break away from existing traditions than to revise and re-evaluate them, along with the perspectives on Russia’s role in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.
Keywords
Central; East; Europe; Gorny; Historical Sciences; Historiography; Marxism; Marxist History of Historiography; Marxist Interpretation of National Histories; Nation; National Tradition; NationalismDOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03538-4ISBN
9783653035384, 9783631645123, 9783653035384Publisher website
https://www.peterlang.com/Publication date and place
Bern, 2013Series
Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History, 1Classification
History and Archaeology
c 1500 onwards to present day
Literary theory
Literary studies: general
21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
Social and cultural history