Introduction: Eurocommunism in a comparative historical perspective -- One window closing and one opening: from the popular fronts to de-Stalinization -- 1968: The rift -- Variations of Eurocommunism: 1973-1979 -- Disengagement from the communist identity -- Opportunities and adaptations -- State, liberalism, democracy -- Revolution, protest, governance -- Eurocommunism and social democracy -- Collapse or transformation of global capitalism: the Eurocommunist response -- The "Europeanization" of the communist movement -- Traces of the Eurocommunist inheritance.
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"Eurocommunism constitutes a 'moment' of great transformation connecting the past and present of the European Left. Left-wing politics effected a definitive transition to a thoroughly different paradigm in the wake of 1968 - a pivotal year of social revolt and rethinking that caused a divide between radical, progressive and socialist thinking in western and southern Europe and the Soviet model. Communist parties in Italy, France, Spain and Greece changed tack, drew on the dynamics of social radicalism of the time and became associated with political moderation, liberal democracy and negotiation rather than contentious politics, forging a movement that held influence until the early 1980s"--
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Title
Eurocommunism
International Standard Book Number
9780815373322
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Eurōkommounismos.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Eurōkommounismos : apo tēn kommounistikē stē rizospastikē eurōpaikē Aristera
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communism-- Europe-- History-- 20th century.
Right and left (Political science)-- Europe-- History-- 20th century.
Right and left (Political science)-- Europe-- History-- 21st century.
Communism.
HISTORY / Europe / France
HISTORY / Europe / Greece (see also Ancient / Greece)