Abstract

Apart from all the appropriate caveats that Eurocommunism is not a homogeneous movement and, as a phenomenon, represents increasing heterogeneity both between the communist parties and within these parties in Western Europe, some similarities do exist. One central question, which arises both on practical, narrowly political grounds and on basic theoretical grounds, lies in the relation of, on the one hand, the communist parties of Western Europe to the Soviet party and the state, and, on the other, of the relation of their vision of socialism and the Soviet model. This has historically been known as the “Russian Question” within the Marxist movements since the October Revolution.