Eurocommunismn.
/ˌjʊərəʊˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/, /ˌjɔːrəʊˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌjəroʊˈkɑmjəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /ˌjʊroʊˈkɑmjəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Politics.
The ideology of Western European communist parties, esp. the movement among certain European communists during the 1970s and 1980s towards independence from the doctrine of the Soviet Communist Party and acceptance of national democratic institutions.
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neo-Communism1923
post-communism1931
hammer and sickle1935
Titoism1947
Naxalism1970
Eurocommunism1976
1976 Survey Spring 129 The Soviet leaders are perfectly conscious that Euro-communism represents a danger for them.
1977 Ann. Reg. 1976 117 Kádár caused some surprise by denying that he regarded Eurocommunism as a form of anti-sovietism.
1982 Christian Sci. Monitor 15 Jan. 12 Enrico Berlinguer, leader of the PCI and founder of Eurocommunism, this week repeated earlier statements that the situation in Poland is unacceptable.
1992 E. Herring in J. Baylis & N. J. Rengger Dilemmas World Politics xiv. 371 The success of Eurocommunism in Western Europe could have been a powerful magnet to Eastern Europe.
2004 Slavic Rev. 63 359 The emergence of Eurocommunism in the 1970s and 1980s suggests either that western European socialists had become too mainstream or that Soviet communists had become too extreme.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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