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.