The year 1968 was a milestone in the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), which was celebrating the 50th anniversary of its establishment. This paper will analyse the peculiarities of the division of 1968 and its impact on the Greek left, especially on the life of Greek refugees in Czechoslovakia. The paper is based primarily on materials available in the National Archives of Prague and also in the archives of the refugee newspaper Agonistis. The article highlights in chronological order the reactions of the KKE and the Czechoslovak leadership to the news of the military coup in Greece, focusing chiefly on those reactions caused by the split of the KKE in conjunction with the changes brought about by the Prague Spring and its violent repression.
This article examines the mechanisms and semantic manifestations of how fictional characters and the social/natural space are depicted in the work of the post-war Greek author Spyros Plaskovitis, who exploits description as a way to organise his works conceptually and aesthetically. The paper focuses on a study of the descriptive pauses in Nature Morte, from the Naked Tree collection (1952), which is a short story not previously thoroughly studied by criticism wherein the author manages to structure the plot and the ideological core of his story with reference to naturalistic standards. An analysis of the narrative reveals the extent to which Plaskovitis converses with previous European and Greek prose tradition but at the same time achieves modernisation and adaptation to the aesthetic/cultural needs of his time.