Nikos Marantzidis is Professor of Political Science in the Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies Department at the University of Macedonia and Visiting Professor at Charles University in Prague. He has published extensively on Greek and European Communism and Greek civil war history.
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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 Republics Epilogue
Based on a rich multiarchival and multilingual source pool from Greece, eastern Europe, and western Europe, Marantzidis succeeds in presenting a fascinating story of a rather tragic nature in which ideology, dreams, ambitions, and ideals clashed with harsh realities, power dynamics, and more than often shrewd expediency. (H-Net) Nikos Marantzidis's new book on the history of the Greek Communist Party (Kommounistiko Komma Ellados, KKE) is a much-needed addition to the often self-centered historiography of Greek communism. The stated ambition of the book is not simply to tell the story of a national communist party but rather to provide "a history of international Communism from the perspective of its periphery in southeastern Europe" (p. 12) through the case study of the KKE. It does so successfully. (H-net)