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The Communist Party of Greece (CPG) was founded on 17 November 1918 amidst the rise of the revolutionary movement in the country, which was strengthened under the influence of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia.
Until 1920 it was called the Socialist Workers' Party of Greece (SRPG); since the 2nd Congress (April 1920), which approved the decision to join the Comintern, it was called the SRPG (Communist).
In 1924 the 3rd Extraordinary Congress renamed the party to CPG.
In 1929-31 the CPG due to factional strife in the leadership experienced an internal party crisis, which was overcome with the support of the Comintern (ICCI's appeal to the CPG in November 1931).
The 6th Plenum of the CPG Central Committee (January 1934), with Comintern's help, developed the party's strategy and tactics, defining the coming revolution in Greece as a bourgeois-democratic revolution with a tendency to develop rapidly into a socialist revolution.
Conferences of the Communist Party of Greece:
Congress - November 1918, Piraeus,
2nd Congress - April 1920, Athens; Extraordinary Pre-election Congress - September 1920, Athens; Extraordinary Congress - October 1922, Athens; Extraordinary Pre-election Congress - September 1923, Athens; Extraordinary Pre-election Congress - September 1923, Athens,
3rd (Extraordinary) Congress - 26 November-3 December 1924, Athens, Athens,
3rd (Ordinary) Congress - March 1927, Athens,
4th Congress - December 1928, Athens,
5th Congress - March 1934, Athens,
6th Congress - December 1935, Athens,
7th Congress - October 1945,
Nikos Zacharias at the head of the Party in the autumn of 1931 (- 1956)
"Nikos Zachariadis was one of the group of the so-called Koutvians (from the initials KUTB, meaning Communist University of the Peoples of the East) who, in 1931, came to Greece from Moscow where they were studying to take over the reconstruction of the leadership of the KKE. At that time the Party was plagued by a deep crisis (1929-1931)... At the beginning of November 1931, the Executive Committee of the KKE (EEKD) appointed a new leadership to the KKE, and issued an appeal "to all members of the KKE... to restore the unity of the Party and to take the lead in the struggle of the people". At the same time: "A new leadership was formed in the KKE with a Political Bureau consisting of Nikos Zachariadis, Secretary, Yannis Ioannidis, Stylianos Sklavinas, Yannis Michaelides, Vassilis Nefeloudis, George Konstantinidis (Asimides) and Leonidas Strigo"."
