Topic or event surrounded by debate? [in terms of historians views on it]

[valdek]

Hi there, I've tried looking through all of the stickies and can't find what in particular what i'm trying to find so i'd really appreciate some suggestions for you history buffs out there.

In terms of the quality of discussions going on in this forum i'm a bit of a novice so i'd just put that out there so I don't get attacked :p..
But I am doing a 2500 word uni project for my history class and am torn as to what my topic will be but I know i'm going to do something in relation to marxist historians and historiography.
What I intend to do is find a topic or event that is surrounded by a lot of debate and then evaluate/examine their views and how they've addressed that topic.

So what I'd really love if possible is a suggestion(s) of a particular topic or event that a range of Marxist historians have debated over (which I will then examine how they've adressed that area.) and with those historians [I]obviously having written books or papers on those topics so I can access them.

I hope you don't think i'm asking to get spoonfed here but I know the plethora of knowledge floating around in this forum will be of some us to me but as I'm just looking to get into an area which really interests me and what I will hope become a passion!

Cheers.

[MarxSchmarx]

Here are some topics I know there is (or was) active debate among "Marxists":

- Why we lost the Spanish civil war.
- The American civil war as proxy for the mercantile/agrarian class conflict.
- Why the United States of Central America failed.
- British rule over India - causes, the nature thereof, effect
- How the Principality of Moscow rose to power

As far as history outside modern European/American history, here are some debates that I've come across:
- Was Julius Caesar a plebian reformer?
- Why the nomads of the north (Ching, Mongols, Manchus) invaded and established dynasties in China when it was not in their interest to directly rule.
- Why human sacrificed was so widespread among the Aztecs

[Invader Zim]

In terms of historiographical discourse Marxist thought was dominant among British historians of the 1950s and 1960s, and in particular this lot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_Historians_Group

[The Idler]

Spanish Civil War and Russian Revolution spring to mind.

[Red Commissar]

The French Revolution and the Paris Commune were also hot topics of debate among Marxists.

I guess their approach into analyzing what Fascism was and what it represented could also be considered.

[¿Que?]

Maybe you could pick a region or country and do a general overview of the labor and/or radical movements there.