Chapter 12 Perestroika and the Greek Left

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Perestroika: The Demise of the Communist World? 1
4. Part I Eastern Europe
5. Chapter 1 The Impact of Perestroika and Glasnost on the CPSU’s Stance toward the “Fraternal Parties” in the Eastern Bloc 27
6. Chapter 2 Soviet Society, Perestroika, and the End of the USSR 55
7. Chapter 3 Perestroika Made in Hungary? The HSWP’s Approach to the Soviet Reform of the Late 1980s 88
8. Chapter 4 Yugoslavia and Perestroika, 1985–1991 Between Hope and Disappointment 105
9. Chapter 5 The Polish United Workers’ Party and Perestroika 118
10. Chapter 6 SED and Perestroika: Perceptions and Reactions 132
11. Chapter 7 Between External Constraint and Internal Crackdown: Romania’s Non-reaction to Soviet Perestroika 153
12. Part II Western Europe
13. Chapter 8 Parallel Destinies The Italian Communist Party and Perestroika 179
14. Chapter 9 “I Felt as If I Were Faced with a French Honecker” The French Communist Party Confronted with a World Falling Apart (1985–1991) 202
15. Chapter 10 A Dialogue of the Deaf: The CPGB and the SED during the Gorbachev Era, 1985–1990 216
16. Chapter 11 Premature Perestroika: The Dutch Communist Party and Gorbachev 236
17. Chapter 12 Perestroika and the Greek Left 256
18. Chapter 13 The Austrian Communists and Perestroika 278
19. Chapter 14 The Spanish Communist Party and Perestroika 298
20. Afterword: Gorbachev and the End of International Communism 323
21. Index 331