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MARXISM, COMMUNISM AND CZECHOSLOVAK ARCHAEOLOGY

    History, Political Science

  • 2014

The 1948 political situation radically changed the former Czechoslovakia. For decades the Communist regime has been influencing political, social and ideological progress. The new ideology was…

Marx, Sherlock Holmes, and Late Italian Prehistory

    History

  • 2017

An important part of the Italian late prehistoric studies has been inspired by Marxist ideas. The works of the proto-historical archaeologists Salvatore Maria Puglisi (1912–1985) and Renato Peroni…

Childe and Soviet archaeology

Gordon Childe was known to his contemporaries as a brilliant prehistorian who held radical left-wing views. While his voicing of Marxist sentiments, together with other unconventional behaviour…

Prehistory and Marxism

In volume III of ‘The Cambridge Journal’ (1949, 131–47) the present Editor of ‘Antiquity’ wrote an article entitled ‘A defence of prehistory’ in which he referred to ‘the environmentalist school of…

The Prehistory of Scotland

SINCE Prof. Gordon Childe went to Edinburgh, he has made himself master of the ascertained facts regarding Scottish prehistory, and has brought a mind saturated with comparative data to a synthesis…

What Happened in History

PROF. V. GORDON CHILDE is one of the foremost prehistorians. He has travelled widely and done much work of great importance to the specialist ; he has, as it were, personally added many bricks to the…