The Rise and Fall of “Austro-Eurocommunism”. On the “Crisis” within the KPÖ and the Significance of East German Influence in the 1960s
Journal: Journal of European Integration History
Year: 2014

Usually, the dramatic events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia are regarded as the starting point for what became known as "Eurocommunism" in the mid-1970s. However, many of the ideas of reform communism had been developing at least since 1956 and had already become part of the official policy of Western European Communist parties throughout the 1960s. This happened long before Warsaw Pact tanks crushed the "Prague Spring" thereby creating a further challenge to Western communists' solidarity with Mosco