Занемарени почетак eврокомунистичких реформи – Савез комуниста Југославије и расцеп у Комунистичкој партији Грчке (1968–1971)
Neglected beginning of the Eurocommunist reforms – the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and the split in the Communist Party of Greece (1968–1971)

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the relations between Yugoslav and Greek communists during the split in the Communist Party of Greece, which marked the first open conflict between the “reformist” and the “conservative” factions in one contemporary European communist party, as well as resulted in the creation of the first official documents containing the principal values of post-war democratic socialism, and later Eurocommunism. Yugoslav communists created various policies of providing financial and military aid to their Greek counterparts to stimulate changes in interior Greek Party policies which they estimated as slow and insufficient, and also to strengthen the Greek resistance against the regime of the military junta, whose rise to power caused a period of animosities between Yugoslav and Greek governments. Although the split in the Greek Party soon became a marginal theme in the conversations and writings of the Mediterranean communists as it was overshadowed by the events in Czechoslovakia and subsequent conflicts on the European far left, the leadership of LCY never stopped trying to integrate interior Greek party in the collective initiatives of European reformist parties and to elevate the importance of Greek communist split for the creation of Eurocommunist ideology.

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