With this book, the author's two-volume work on "red violence" during the period 1943-1950 is completed. Sakis Moumtzis in this book attempts to answer the main question of whether the civil war was an attempt by the leadership of the KKE to integrate the internal political situation into the international environment of crisis that began to take shape in Europe and the Balkans, or if it was a social revolution due to the intensification of the conditions in Greece.

Was it an attempt by the third-internationalist leadership of the KKE not to integrate the party into the processes of the bourgeois parliamentary democracy, which they did not believe in, or was it a result of "White Terror" and the choices of the American-British factor? The author examines the contribution of the people's democracies to the outbreak of the civil war, as well as the conditions under which it was conducted in cities and the countryside.

He tries to record the collective availabilities, the underground and visible currents of civil war society. With a subversive perspective, he examines the issues of Makronisos, the Extraordinary Military Courts, and the events of the Peloponnese. He records and analyzes the strategy of the KKE and the developments both in the political sphere and on the battlefields after 1946.

Moumtzis clearly illustrates how political decisions intertwine with military developments and how the latter largely determine the character of the political system of post-civil war Greece. As stated in the introduction of the book by Nikos Marantidis, "The 'Red Violence' represents one of the best texts for historical understanding of the reasoning, strategy, and internal contradictions of the communist Left."

Moumtzis may not be a professional historian, but it proves that he is an excellent connoisseur of the ideological and organizational world of the KKE, and at the same time, he is a sharp political analyst of the communist phenomenon, capable of understanding the political mandates, plans, and obstacles that the KKE faced during that specific historical juncture.

The first volume of the book, "Red Violence, 1943-1946" ISBN 9789604584727 is published by Epikentro Editions. Sakis Moumtzis was born in 1953 in Thessaloniki. He graduated from the Experimental School in 1971 and obtained a Law degree in 1976. He was politically active in the Rigas Feraios movement, in the Student Movement, and later in the ranks of the Thessaloniki Organization of the KKE Interior, participating in the editorial committee of the magazine Agonas. From 1980 to 2009, he was professionally involved with the family business. He lives in Thessaloniki.