John O. Iatrides,
Journal of Cold War Studies 7, no. 3 (2005): 3-33.
1. How does Iatrides
answer the question of whether or not the Greek Communist Party’s (KKE)
decision to go to war was a “revolution” or “self-defense”?
2. What were the KKE’s
goals? Strategy? Tactics?
3. Did the KKE seek to
impose a one-party Communist dictatorship by any means, including armed force,
and to deliver the country to the Soviet orbit?
4. Or did the KKE want to
protect leftists from right-wing persecution and to safeguard the prominent
role the leftists had earned in the country’s political process through their
popular wartime resistance movement
5. Iatrides tries to give
a ‘balanced’ assessment of the causes of the Greek Civil War. In your opinion, does he succeed?
