The nation should come first : : Marxism and historiography in east central Europe / / Maciej Górny ; Translated by Antoni Górny ; Editorial assistance Aaron Law.

• Author: Górny, Maciej, 1976-
• TeilnehmendeR: Górny, Antoni.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main ;, New York : : Peter Lang,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

By the second half of the 1940's, 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

Table of Contents

Cover ; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. Writing Comparative Histories of Historiography; Chapter I. Method; Chapter II. The Organisation of Historical Sciences and the Creation of Early Postwar Narrations; Chapter III. On the Lookout for Progressive Traditions; At the Dawn of Feudalism ; The Anti-Feudal Social Revolution ; Between the French Revolution and the Russian Tanks ; The National Movements of the 19th Century ; The Impact of the Great Socialist October Revolution on the History of East Central Europe ; Chapter IV. The Marxist History of Historiography

Historiography and the Concept of State - German Historical Science Dilemmas of Polish Historiography since the Late 18th Century; Czech Historiography in the Shadow of the National Revival ; A History Struggling for the Right to Exist - Slovak Historiography ; Poland: Criteria of Progressiveness and Pan-Slavism ; Czechoslovakia: Defense of the Founding Fathers ; GDR: Rather Treitschke than Ranke ; Chapter V. Four Historiographies in the Context of the Region; Bibliography; Index