Thesis defence The Greek Left and Soviet Literature 1924-1968 Add to calendar 2026-02-26 15:00 2026-02-26 17:30 Europe/Rome The Greek Left and Soviet Literature Sala degli Stemmi, and Zoom YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Feb 26 2026 15:00 - 17:30 CET Sala degli Stemmi, and Zoom Organised by Department of History PhD thesis defence by Nikolaos Paraschis Although many researchers and historical actors have underlined the importance of the reception of Soviet literature for the formation and development of the Greek political Left in the twentieth century, no study has heretofore attempted the mapping of this historical process. This dissertation has thus taken upon itself to document and discuss the reception of Soviet literature in the Greek political Left between the year of 'Marxist-Leninist' assimilation in 1924 and the subsequent sociopolitical pre-eminence of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) within the broader Greek Left, to the eventual split of the KKE into ‘οrthodox’ and Eurocommunist factions in 1968. Arguing for both the literature-centric nature of the internal and external projection of Soviet power and the Greek Left as a whole, as well as the ways Soviet and Greek leftist actors worked in tandem for the promotion of Soviet culture in Greece as a whole, this dissertation evidences the exact ways in which Soviet literary reception interacted and even determined facets of Greek social, political, and cultural history during this forty-two-year period; from the repressive cultural mechanisms of the Greek state in its most ‘nationalist’ manifestations, the cultural imaginaries of the Greek Left, and the rise and fall of the dogma of ‘socialist realism’ in the country, to the reception of Russian-language literature in Greece as a whole and the creation, sustainment, and development of international networks of leftist cultural exchange. Register