Contents
Publisher’s Note
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 An Introduction to Marxist Historiography in Poland
Chapter 3 Polish Medievalists in the Face of Stalinism (1948–1955)
Chapter 4 Hungarian Medievalists under the Spell of Marxism
Chapter 5 On the Genesis of Marxist Iconology: Some Observations on the Ambitious Methodological Endeavours of Czech Medieval Art History
Chapter 6 Marxism and the Cultural History of Medieval Rus’: The Concept of a Russian Pre-Renaissance
Chapter 7 František Graus: From Marxist Dogmas to the Concept of the Living and Dead Past
Chapter 8 Between Science and Politics, between History and Archaeology: The Department for Studies on the Origins of the Polish State (1948/1949–1953)
Chapter 9 Medieval Knight Clans in Marxist Historiographical Criticism in the 1950s
Chapter 10 How Did the Czech Hussites Become a Current Problem in the History of Socialist Poland? Ewa Maleczyńska: Between Professional and Party Historian
Chapter 11 Hussitism as an Early Bourgeois Revolution
Chapter 12 Between Nationalism and Marxism: Silesian Princes of the Late Middle Ages through the Lens of Post-war Polish Historiography
Chapter 13 Peasants, Rents, and Money in Marxist Works on German Law-Based Colonization
Chapter 14 Great Moravia in Slovak Marxist Historiography
Chapter 15 Marxists, Pseudo-Marxists and Neo-Marxists in Czech Archaeology
Chapter 16 Marxism in Medieval Archaeology: A Woman’s Touch
Chapter 17 Marxist Historical Theory in the Research of the Árpádian Period in Hungary (1000–1301)
Chapter 18 The Marxist Paradigm and Early Romanian Medieval Archaeology from the “Era of Great Achievements”
Chapter 19 Conclusion: Is Marxism Alive and Inspiring in Contemporary East Central European Medieval Studies?
Index