Table 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.