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Shaping Identities: The C ypriot L eft and the Communist Party of G reece in the 1940s
Author(s) -
Alecou Alexios
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12102
Subject(s) - ideology , communism , politics , political science , identity (music) , spanish civil war , field (mathematics) , control (management) , public relations , political economy , public administration , law , sociology , management , economics , physics , mathematics , acoustics , pure mathematics
This paper seeks to reveal the many ways in which the Communist Party of G reece ( KKE ) influenced the C ypriot L eft ( AKEL ) during the 1940s. The analysis centres on the main political events of the decade and details the reaction of AKEL , especially as it was reporting to the KKE . Attention then switches to AKEL 's ideology and tactics and how these were developed during and because of the G reek civil war. What this paper brings to the discussion is that the advice and control given by the KKE to AKEL – and at the same time the C old W ar, which was a playing field on which a political party had to choose a side – were the main factors that formed the identity and ideological framework practiced for decades by AKEL .