Refugee to Revolutionary: A Transnational History of Greek Communist Women in Interwar Europe - Hardcover

Refugee to Revolutionary: A Transnational History of Greek Communist Women in Interwar Europe - Hardcover

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Refugee to Revolutionary: A Transnational History of Greek Communist Women in Interwar Europe - Hardcover

Refugee to Revolutionary: A Transnational History of Greek Communist Women in Interwar Europe - Hardcover

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by Margarite Poulos (Author)

The obscure first-generation female cadres of the Greek communist movement were cultivated in the 1920s in the context of Bolshevization, while others were mobilized by antifascism and resistance to the Axis occupation. A number of these women traveled to Moscow to undertake training in the communist universities for foreigners established by the Comintern.

Refugee to Revolutionary examines the national and transnational world the female cadres of the Greek communist movement traversed, situated between their own aspirations, the objectives of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), and the global ambitions of the Comintern. Drawing largely on data contained in the individual files (anketas) of the KKE cadres located in the Comintern archive at the Russian State Archive for Socio-Political History (RGASPI), as well as Greek Communist Party archival materials, this history is told largely in the voice, albeit the "official" voice, of the subjects themselves. These voices reveal much about the personal, cultural, social, and gendered dimensions of their experience. They convey a story of opportunity and sacrifice and the sense of being part of something historic and extraordinary.

The overarching purpose of this book is two-pronged: The first is to address a historiographical void attributable to a combination of factors, which includes the inaccessibility of Soviet archival materials and a persistent hegemonic masculinity that continues to define the historiography of Greek communism. Second, this work is situated within a new literature represented by scholars such as Brigitte Studer, Lisa Kirschenbaum, Francisca De Haan, and others, which destabilizes Cold War paradigms that have long dominated evaluations of agency, identity, and subjectivity in the Western historiography of communism.

Author Biography

Margarite Poulos is a senior lecturer at Western Sydney University, where she teaches modern European history. She is the author of Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity.

Number of Pages: 276
Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: November 30, 2024

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