Under Stalin's Shadow : : A Global History of Greek Communism / / Nikos Marantzidis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Marantzidis, Nikos,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 1 map

Under Stalin's Shadow examines the history of the communist party of Greece (KKE) from 1918–1956, showing how much national communism was related to international developments. The history of the KKE reveals the role of Moscow in the various communist parties of Southeastern Europe, as Nikos Marantzidis shows that communism's international institutions (Moscow Center, Comintern, Balkan Communist Federation, Cominform, sister parties in the Balkans) were not merely external factors influencing orientation and policy choices. Based on research from unpublished and published archival documents located in Greece, Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, and the Balkan countries, Under Stalin's Shadow traces the movement's interactions with fraternal parties in neighboring states and with their acknowledged supreme mentors in Stalin's Soviet Russia. Marantzidis reveals how, because the boundaries between the national and international in the communist world were not clearly drawn, international institutions, geopolitical soviet interests, and sister parties' strategies shaped in fundamental ways the KKE's leadership, its character and decision-making as a party, and the way of life of its followers over the years.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Global History of Greek Communism -- Part I: Interwar, 1918–39 -- 1. Becoming Balkan Bolsheviks -- 2. Balkan Communism and the National Question -- 3. Becoming Greek Stalinists -- Part II: World War II and the Early Cold War Years, 1939–56 -- 4. Greek Dilemmas -- 5. Balkan Decisions -- 6. The Displaced People’s Republic -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Note on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index