The Communist International and the Contribution of Georg Lukács in the 1920s

Georg Lukács is one of the best-known Marxist intellectuals of the twentieth century. He acquired this reputation during the 1960s, when so-called western Marxism was considered a centrepiece of intellectual debate and with which it was necessary to be familiar in order to participate in such discussions. Since the so-called system change of 1989 in the Eastern Bloc at the latest, intellectual interest has shifted to other subjects. Lukács is now included in the textbooks of Anglo-American universities due to his contributions to the theory of literature, that is, for his theory of realism developed between the 1930s and the 1950s.