Cypriot Left Popular Movement - Legacies of the Past

This book discusses the history of the left labour movement in Cyprus, a country under British colonial rule for 82 years (1878-1960).

List of contents

1. Introduction: The Cypriot Gauls
2. Agents and Structures of Dissemination and Popularization of Communist Ideology: The Popular Movement Associations
3. Schemes of Labour and Popular Strata Self-Organization: The Collectives' Experiment
4. The 1940s Class Legacy
5. Local Communisms: Bastions, Red Spots and Little Moscows
6. Modernity via Red Glasses: How Communism became Entrenched on Community Level
7. Building a Bi-Communal, Anti-Nationalist Heritage
8. The Political Assassinations of 1957-58: The War 'of' and 'for' Memory
9. Gender Perspectives in the Cypriot Left
10. The Making of an Alternative Folk Tradition
11. Conclusions: A Multiform, Plural Heritage: When the Past Talks to the Future

About the author

Yiannos Katsourides is Director of Prometheus Research Institute and adjunct lecturer at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus.

Summary

This book discusses the history of the left labour movement in Cyprus, a country under British colonial rule for 82 years (1878-1960).

Product details

• Authors: Yiannos Katsourides
• Assisted by: Yiannos Katsourides (Editor), Katsourides Yiannos (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.05.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781138239357
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23935-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics; Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, History and Archaeology, Marxism & Communism, left;labour;Cyprus;mobilization;communist;movement