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Author Balampanidis, Ioannis

Title Eurocommunism : From the Communist to the Radical European Left
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Series The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Ser
Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; A comparative perspective; What was the Eurocommunist "moment"?; The great Eurocommunist transformation; Notes; Part I Eurocommunism in its time; Chapter 2 One window closing and one opening: From the popular fronts to de-Stalinization; Popular fronts and resistance; Communists in the post-war era; Duclos' pigeons and the via italiana; De-Stalinization: a window of opportunity; Two deaths, three documents and an expulsion
Italy and France: the turn inside the partySpain and Greece: the turn inside and outside the party; Notes; Chapter 3 1968: The rift; The catalyst of 1968; The lost Spring of Czechoslovakia; Another Spring lost: 1968 in Greece; Communists in May: France; Communists in May: the delayed-action case of Greece; Communists in May: Italy; Can dialectics break bricks? Between the "old" and New Left; Notes; Chapter 4 Variations of Eurocommunism: 1973-1979; Italy: the pioneer; Italian vanguard: from radical anti-hegemony to a moderate national role; Historic compromise: connecting the dots
France: an impossible historic compromise of the LeftThe Spanish compromise on democratic transition; The Eurocommunist paradox in the Greek post-dictatorship period; Notes; Chapter 5 Disengagement from the communist identity; One step towards identity politics (and one step back?); Gorbachev: the catalyst; One step towards the European Left, and one step back; A post-communist identity; Communist identity as exception: the French Communist Party; Notes; Part II The Eurocommunist transformation; Chapter 6 Opportunities and adaptations; The era of conferences
From autonomy to conflict: Afghanistan and PolandThe ideological aggiornamento; Dialectics, pluralism, pragmatism; The sociological aggiornamento; Towards a new communist sociological profile; Notes; Chapter 7 State, liberalism, democracy; The state as theoretical battlefield; The state as political challenge; From state to liberalism; Deepening of liberalism and pluralism; Papa, what is democratic centralism?; The majority wins; Socialism will either be democratic or will not be at all; Notes; Chapter 8 Revolution, protest, governance; The political role of "protest"; Reform or revolution?
And the dictatorship of the proletariat?Taking power from local to national level; From class to the people and from the people to the nation; Notes; Chapter 9 Eurocommunism and social democracy; A "Mediterranean" communist reformism; The limits of communist reformism; Eurocommunism and social democracy: antagonistic co-existence; A communism without rupture?; A "communist" regime of governance?; Notes; Part III Eurocommunism between national and supranational politics; Chapter 10 Collapse or transformation of global capitalism?: The Eurocommunist response; "We are all planners now."
Notes Beyond the monopolies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Communism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Right and left (Political science) -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Right and left (Political science) -- Europe
Communism.
Right and left (Political science)
Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
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