SOCIO-POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT OF GERMANY IN THE WORKS OF MARBURG SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVES

Abstract

The article analyzes the social and political aspects of the historical development of the post-war West Germany in the works of the famous West German historian and Marxist Wolfgang Abendroth and his followers. The article considers the main milestones of forming the concept and the basic works of the representatives of the Marburg school of historiography of Germany. The author presents a brief overview of Abendroth’s impact on the emergence of the Marxist direction in the historiography of the Federal Republic of Germany. The author analyses the researcher’s theory on the essence of the labour movement, of the socialist theory, of the status of the classes in the West German society after the World War II.