... Albania to organise some communist cells. However Albania did not have a working class to exploit and the ideology of communism only seemed to appeal to intellectuals, peasants and miners who were not happy with Albania's obsolete social and economic structures. Kelmendi who had been forced to flee Albania eventually fought in the Spanish Civil War and later moved to France, where together with other communists, including a student named Enver Hoxha, he published a newspaper. Enver Hoxha eventually rose to become the most powerful figure in Albania for decades after the war. The dominant figure in modern Albanian history, Enver Hoxha rose from insignificance to lead his people for a longer time than any other ruler. Born in 1908 to a Muslim landowner from Gjirokaster who returned to Albania after working in the United States, Hoxha had been educated in France and was to become as R.J.Crampton states 'the ...

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