Introduction

Chapter One: From Cyprus’ cession to the British in 1878 until early interwar

a) Political and diplomatic developments

b) Towards slow-moving capitalist economic growth

c) The Cyprus’ rural and working classes

d) The 1929 financial crisis

Chapter Two: From the first communist cells to the Communist Party of Cyprus (1919-1923)

a) The beginning

b) The new party’s positions

Chapter Three: The first CPC period (1924-1926)

a) How the CPC operated

1) Organizational evolution

2) The party’s presence through the press

3) The party’s relations with other communist parties

b) The CPC's positions on union with Greece

c) Social fronts interventions

1) On the labor front

2) On the agricultural front

3) On women's issues

d) Participation in elections

1) The October 1925 elections

2) The 1926 municipal elections

e) Discussion

Chapter Four: Between 1926 and 1930

a) The CPC’s operation

1) Organizational development

2) The CPC goes underground

3) The party’s presence in the press

b) The CPC's positions on union with Greece

c) Interventions on different social fronts

d) Interventions in the electoral process

1) The 1927 municipal elections

2) The 1930 municipal elections

3) The 1930 Legislative Council elections

e) Discussion

Chapter Five: From Vatis’ leadership (December 1930) to the October movement





c) Turkish Cypriots and the CPC

d) The CPC and the movement for union with Greece

e) Interference in the 1931 by-elections

1) Paphos







h) The October uprising



j) Discussion

Chapter Six: The Aftermath of the October uprising: The Vatis-Skeleas-Selvas (Nisiotis) controversy within the Comintern

a) The issue

b) Discussion

Chapter Seven: The period after the October uprising until Servas was appointed Secretary General.

a) Political authoritarianism prevails in Cyprus



c) Party interventions and persecution of communists

d) Two landmark trials

e) Discussion

Chapter Eight: From Servas' assumption of leadership to the eve of AKEL’s creation (1935- 1941)



b) The period of reorganization

c) Suppression



e) The newspaper Anexartitos

f) The party’s approach of the Second World War

g) The 4th Congress

h) Turkish Cypriots and the CPC

i) The path towards a frontal political platform

j) Discussion

Chapter Nine: From AKEL’s creation to the CPC’s dissolution





c) Capital accumulation and the workers' movement development

d) AKEL on the question of uniting with Greece

e) The

f) AKEL’s Central Committee decision on Cypriot participation in the British military

g) From AKEL’s creation to the CPC’s 5th Congress

h) AKEL’s 4th and 5th Congress: Towards a new communist party

i) Discussion

Conclusion

Appendix

a) Short biographies of leading CPC members

b) Tables

Index