Soviet Dissidents and Eurocommunism

A volatile relationship binds the Communist parties of France, Italy, and Spain, the Communist party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and the Soviet dissenters espousing various Marxist tendencies. Central to the instability of this relationship are the attempts by the Eurocommunist parties to achieve their political goals by electoral means.

For want of a better term, those Soviet dissenters espousing a nonofficial form of socialism will be characterized as “dissident Marxists.”...