Conference paper presented by Daphnos Economou at the 1st Historical Materialism Athens Conference at Panteion University, in May 2019. The First Career of the Communist Party of Cyprus Daphnos Economou Historical Materialism Conference (Athens, May 2019) Introduction Few materials on the history of the Communist Party of Cyprus were accessible till the mid-1990s. The Hoover Institution had published a Cold War diatribe in 1971 as part of its “Comparative Communist Party Politics” series. Its author, T.W. Adams, had earlier penned a monograph titled “U.S. Army Area Handbook for Cyprus”, issued by the Government Printing Office in Washington. The other available source was a celebratory volume published by AKEL – the successor of the KKK – for the 50th anniversary of its founding, in 1976. Here anecdotal story telling substituted for historical and political fact. Through it, the “pioneering communists” were first praised for their selflessness, then excused for “inexp
Το παρόν blog έχει δημιουργηθεί για σκοπούς dumping κειμένων (και πιθανότατα άλλου υλικού) που σχετίζεται με το υπέροχο νησί της Κύπρου. Κάθε τόσο προσθέτεται υλικό που καμία σχέση δεν έχει με την Κύπρο. Δεν πρόκειται να ακολουθηθεί συνειδητά καμιά συνοχή.