Nikos Marantzidis is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. He studied Sociology in Paris, earning his PhD in Political Sociology from Paris 10 in 1994 with a thesis on the Communist Party of Greece’s implantation and electoral evolution in rural areas through the Cold War. He has been a visiting professor in Chicago, Prague, and Warsaw, and has published on Greek and European communist parties, electoral behavior, and the Greek civil war. His latest book, Under Stalin’s Shadow (2023), was published by Cornell University Press.