Greek Communism, 1968-2001
Greek Communism, 1968-2001

Summary/Abstract: An enduring, central, and most distinctive feature of the Greek communist movement is its dual character: since the party's split in 1968, a pro-Soviet " orthodox" Communist Party has coexisted and competed with a "reformist" one (which officially shed its communist identity in 1986 ) . The roots of this dualism, however, go deeper and can be traced back to the military defeat of the communist movement in the Greek Civil War. Two years after the communist defeat in 1 949, and despite the restrictions imposed by the post-civil war regime, a vibrant leftist (though Communist-controlled) party emerged within Greece. This party coexisted with the exiled Communist leadership and a vast network of party-affiliated organizations that developed outside Greece, among the tens of thousands of Greeks who found themselves in Central and Eastern Europe after the end of the civil war. [...]

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