ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the reasons for the communist failure in june 1977 and efforts undertaken by the Partido Comunista de Espana(PCE) in the months after the elections to increase its influence in Spanish politics. In the elections of June 1977, the communist party captured 9.2 per cent of the national ballots, but the PCE still trailed far behind the Union de Centro Democratico (UCD) led by incumbent Premier Adolfo Suarez and Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE) which garnered 34 and 29 per cent of the vote respectively. The political importance of the document derives from the fact that for the first time a Secretary-General of a Western European Communist Party put luis carrero blanco name to a book which so bluntly assailed the Soviet Union, coming very close to denying the socialist nature of the USSR and declaring that profound structural transformations were necessary there before the Soviet state could be considered a 'democratic worker's state.
