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The '''Communist Party of Greece''' (Greek: ''KKE'', ''Kommunistiko Komma Elladas'') was formed on [[November 17]], 1918 in Greece due to the upsurge in the revolutionary movement in the country, which was strengthened by the effect of the [[Great October Socialist Revolution]] in [[Russia]].  Until 1920 it was called the Socialist Labor Party of Greece; at the second congress, which approved the party's relationship to the [[Comintern]], it was called the Socialist Labor Party of Greece (Communist).  In 1924, at the third extraordinary congress of the party, it was renamed the Communist Party of Greece.  From 1929-1931 KKE had a leadership factional fight - the party made it through this crisis within the inner party, which the Comintern became involved in (address of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, November 1931).  The sixth plenum of the Central Committee of the KKE (January 1934), in consultation with the Comintern, planned strategy and tactics of the party, defining the future revolution in Greece as bourgeois democratic with the likelihood of it rapidly growing into a socialist one.  With the establishment in Greece of the openly fascist dictatorship of General [[Ioannis Metaxas]] (August 1936), KKE was outlawed.  During [[World War II]] (1939-1945), KKE took the initiative of creating the National Liberation Front (EAM) in September 1941, and the People's Liberation Army (ELAS) in December 1941.  In March 1944, EAM created the Political and Security committee of national liberation.  The basis of the people's democratic authority was laid by the heroic fight of Greek people in the country (numbering 435,000 in October 1944) led by KKE; however this process was interrupted by the armed intervention of England in December 1944.  The anti-democratic forces, whose authority was backed by the British military, established a regime of terror, pushing the country towards civil war.

During October 1946 was created the democratic army of Greece, which carried on a valid struggle against the internal reaction, against the interference in made Greece English and American imperialism, for the national independence, democracy and social progress. During December 1947 KPG it was newly it was declared out of the law, 40 thousand Communists proved to be in the conclusion, tens of thousand emigrated from the country. After the end of Civil War (September 1949) the center of gravity of the work of the party of byl is transferred on the organization of the economic and political appearances of all it is layer working. At the same time management KPG did not know how it gave correct estimation to the changed situation in the country it worked out the clear program of party, it conducted leftist, sectarian line, spread the personality cult of that been at that time by the Secretary General N. zakhariadis, disrupted the Leninist principles of party life. the 6th extended plenum OF TSK and TSKK (March 1956) of vskryl the committed errors and their reason, vosstanovil Leninist principles in the activity of party, izbral the new management KPG [ of byl is created temporary (until February 1957) leading organ - bureaus OF TSK ], the eighth congress OF KPG (1961) of obobshchil the experience of revolutionary movement in Greece for 20 years (1941 - 61), prinyal the new program KPG, which it is oriented Greek Communists to the fight for the realization in the country of national-democratic conversions as the neobkhodimogo stage for the passage to the socialist reconstruction of Greece. After the establishment on 21 April 1967 military dictatorships KPG blew fight for the rallying of all anti-dictatorial forces into the united front, for the overthrow of dictatorial regime and the revival of the country on the basis of democracy and social progress.