ABSTRACT
The term “Eurocommunism” was not invented by the Eurocommunist parties. Its first recorded use was from Arrigo Levi in the Italian newspaper La Stampa to describe an existing phenomenon that was looking for a name – though there is no lack of hypotheses such as that of CPSU foreign policy chief Vladimir Zagladin that the term was coined by Zbigniew Brzezinski, at that time advisor to Jimmy Carter. Moreover, for the hard-core Czechoslovak communist Vasil Bilak, Eurocommunism was “tantamount to betrayal” and for the Bulgarian Todor Zhivkov a wall constructed by the reactionaries between the parties of the socialist east and those of Western Europe. 1
