Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe

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The articles of this volume aim to explain the development and current state of the former Moscow-oriented communist parties and their successors in Europe - East and West. Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction I. Western Europe The Disappearance of Communism in the Netherlands The PDS / Linkspartei PDS and the Extreme Left – Decline and Renaissance of Communism in Germany France – The Collapse of the House of Communism Communist and Post - Communist Parties in Switzerlandafter 1989/1990 – A Survey II. Northern Europe Post - Communism and Leftist Parties in Two ScandinavianCountries after 1989 – The Cases of Denmark and Sweden Communism in Estonia – Party Dead but Ex-Members Well Off III. Southern Europe Few but Pure and Good Members are Preferred to a Mass Party–The Portuguese Communist Party’s Continued Orthodoxy The PRC – Emergence and Crisis of the Antagonistic Left The Communist Party of Greece after the Collapseof Communism (1989–2006) – From Proletarian Internationalism to Ethno-Populism The Communist Party of Cyprus–AKEL IV. Eastern Europe Communist and Post-Communist Parties in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia Post-Communist Parties in Poland after 1989 A Romanian Tale–The Transition of the Communist Party from Ceauşescu to NATO The Socialist Party of Serbia Ukraine 1991–2006 – Where Have All the Communists Gone? Between Conformity and the Struggle for Political Survival – The Communist Parties in Belarus The Communist Party of the Russian Federation ( CPRF ) V. Transnational Cooperation and Comparison Transnational Cooperation of Post-Communist Parties Trade Unions and Communism in Spain, France, and Italy (Ex-)Communist Elites and State Capture Communism and Neo-Communism in Times of “Globalization” Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Abbreviations Index List of Contributors