JOÃO MADEIRA
Bolshevization, clandestine party workers and the Portuguese Communist Party identity.

The body of underground part workers made up the backbone of the PCP during the years of illegality under the "Estado Novo" (New State). The vertical mobility in the party organization, the selection criteria, the tensions between the norm and reality, shaped those people. They became a very efficient interface between the small core of leaders and the common party members, holding a not insignificant symbolic power.