The eurocommunist moment of transformation: premises, limits and legacy
Abstract
The thesis examines the Eurocommunism in a comparative perspective. Drawing from the field of history it aims to trace those elements that bear a conceptual, political and historical coherence to this political phenomenon that has proved to be extremely important for the European left in the long run. The scope of the thesis is to study the policy strategy, the ideological positioning and shifting, the discourse and the sociology of the communist parties of Italy (PCI), France (PCF), Spain (PCE) and Greece (KKE esoterikou) in an historical period extending from the rupture of 1968 up to shortly before the collapse of the communist world in 1989. The main hypothesis is that Eurocommunism was a “moment” of transformation connecting the past with the present of the European Left. The Eurocommunist project attempted to restore a political strategy initiative for the communist parties of Europe through a “window of opportunity” that has been the parallel crisis of both the Soviet and the We ...
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