Speaker Bio

Nikos Marantzidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1966. He Studied Sociology and Political Sociology in the Universities Paris 7 (Jussieu) and Paris 10 (Nanterre). He holds a Ph.D. of Political Sociology from the University of Paris 10 (1994). His Ph.D. thesis has focused on the implantation and the electoral evolution of the Communist party of Greece (KKE) in rural areas until the end of the Cold War. He is professor of political science in the department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki.

He has been visiting professor in the University of Chicago, in Charles University at Prague, in Warsaw University and the University of Kerala in India. He has published books and articles on the Greek and European communist parties, on electoral behavior and the Greek civil war. His last book (2023), Under Stalin's Shadow, a global history of Greek communism was published by Cornell University Press and in Greek by Alexandria Editions.