ABSTRACT

The 1968 conjuncture was a catalytic moment for the Eurocommunist transformation. Its “Western” side (May 1968 in Paris) was perhaps more decisive than its counterpart in the East (the Soviet invasion of Prague). Inevitably the question arises: how did the communists of Europe react to a near-revolutionary crisis which again (as in 1917, albeit in a different way) did not have the historical characteristics they perhaps expected?