Communism and Nationalism in Postwar Cyprus, 1945-1955, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Politics and Ideologies Under British Rule

This book analyzes the events that impacted the structure and competitive processes of the two dominant Cypriot political factions while under the watchful eye of British rule. Based on new archival research, Alecou addresses the social and political environment in which the Cypriot Communists and Nationalists fought each other while at the same time had to fight the British Empire. The differences between communists and nationalists brought the two sides to a frontal collision in the wake of the events of the Greek civil war. The class conflict within Cypriot society would at some point inevitably lead, in one way or another, to a clash between the two factions. The civil war in Greece constituted another field of conflict between Left and Right, accelerating the formation of a bipolar party system in which the vertical division of the Greek community in Cyprus eventually expressed itself. 

.-Introduction.

.- 1. Class and political formation: Cypriot society before WWII.

.-2. Communism and Nationalism in Cyprus.

.-3. British methods of rule: Political liberties and the Constitutional Assembly.

.-4. External influences: Cyprus as a reflection of Greece.

.-5. Communism vs. Nationalism: fields of conflict.

.-6. Leading the anti-colonial movement.

.-7. Internationalization of Enosis.

.-8. Armed struggle: a one-way path?.

.-Conclusion.

Explores how anti-colonial movements and pro-communist movements developed in response to British policy

Appeals to historians of post war Britain and Cyprus, as well as political scientists and economists interested in nation-state building, and Cold War communist movements

Provides a timely analysis of European relations in and around the period of EU formation