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The USSR and the Fate of Austrian Communism 1944-1956

Mueller, Wolfgang
2017-06
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http://hdl.handle.net/10077/21262
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The essay focuses on post-war Stalinist policies towards Austria as a laboratory for strengthening Communist influence in a country on the Cold War border line. In 1945 Moscow instructed the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) to pursue a cautious national- front policy. Indeed, the strong distrust of a large part of the Austrian population towards Communism combined with Soviet post-war crimes in Austria contributed to the KPÖ’s electoral disaster in November 1945. From 1947 on, the KPÖ switched to a more confrontational line as was later pursued by the Kominformburo. While Soviet support for the KPÖ was strong enough to cement the latter’s image as a «Soviet party», it was never strong enough to bring the KPÖ to power.
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QUALESTORIA. Rivista di storia contemporanea. Anno XLV, N.ro 1, Giugno 2017. Comunisti di frontiera. I partiti comunisti nell'area Alpe-Adria 1945-1955
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  • communism

  • austrian communist pa...

  • Soviet union

  • Austria

  • postwar

  • comunismo

  • Partito comunista aus...

  • Unione sovietica

  • dopoguerra

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Wolfgang Mueller, "The USSR and the Fate of Austrian Communism 1944-1956", in "Qualestoria. Rivista di storia contemporanea. Anno XLV, N.ro 1, Giugno 2017. Comunismi di frontiera. I partiti comunisti nell'area Alpe-Adria 1945-1955", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 63-88
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