The Third Road Policy: Eurocommunism and Its Yugoslav Assessment

Milivoj Bešlin; Petar  Žarković; Srđan Milošević

doi:10.2298/FID2204037B

Authors

Milivoj Bešlin University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Petar Žarković University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Srđan Milošević , Union University Law School; The Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2204037B

Keywords:

Eurocommunism, the Cold War, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Santiago Carrillo, Enrico Berlinguer

Abstract

This paper deals with a critical stage in the dissolution of the Soviet Communist (Bolshevik) Party’s domination in the Communist commonwealth. The gradual emancipation of European Communist parties, starting with Yugoslavia (1948), through the developments that caused the Soviet interventions in Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968), gave birth to independent strategies of political struggle, autonomous from Moscow’s ideological centre, which were implemented by the largest Communist parties in Western Europe. The attempts aimed at the syncretism of the communist platform, and ideas of political rights and adapting to the parliamentary regime resulted in the “Third Road” movement, which strove to unify the positive experiences of the two ideologically opposed sides of the Cold War international constellation. Although it was a belated and, eventually – purely ideological concept, the movement itself and the idea of Eurocommunism has remained as an important testimony of an attempt at finding new paths in the struggle for a more just society.

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