History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher
György Lukács, the work for which he is best known. In the work, Lukács re-emphasizes
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's influence on
Karl Marx, analyses the concept of class consciousness, and attempts a philosophical justification of
Bolshevism. Though condemned in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,
History and Class Consciousness helped to create
Western Marxism and some of Lukács's pronouncements have become famous.