The Greek Military Dictatorship

Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-174-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that left a lasting mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military Dictatorship explores the junta’s attempts to impose authoritarian rule upon a rapidly modernizing country while navigating a complex international landscape. Focusing both on foreign relations as well as domestic matters such as economics, ideology, religion, culture and education, this book offers a fresh and well-researched study of a key period in modern Greek history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anastasakis, Othon

Lagos, Katerina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Foreword and Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Greek Military Junta’s Exceptionalism in a Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Othon Anastasakis and Katerina Lagos

Part I: Historical and Ideological Background

Chapter 1. The Greek Army in Politics, 1935–67

André Gerolymatos

Chapter 2. The Political and Ideological Origins of the Ethnosotirios Epanastasis

Katerina Lagos

Part II: Domestic Affairs

Chapter 3. Economic Policy under the Greek Dictatorship

Andreas Kakridis

Chapter 4. Foreign Investment under the Greek Military Regime: The American Experience

Nicholas James Kalogerakos

Chapter 5. “Patient in a Cast”: How the Greek Military Regime Traumatised Education

Othon Anastasakis

Chapter 6. Can Dead Poets Speak Back?: C. P. Cavafy, Cold War Propaganda, and the Greek Dictatorship

Foteini Dimirouli

Chapter 7. Religion Enchained: The Church of Greece under the Military Junta

Charalampos Andreopoulos and Athanasios Grammenos

Part III: External Affairs

Chapter 8. Uneasy Alliances: Archbishop Iakovos and the Greek Colonels’ Dictatorship

Alexander Kitroeff

Chapter 9. Uncle Sam Regrets: The United States and the Greek Coup of April 1967

James Edward Miller



Chapter 10. Britain, Europe, and the Greek Junta: “Business as Usual”

Alexandros Nafpliotis

Chapter 11. West Germany’s Policy toward Greece during the Junta-Period in the Context of “Burden-Sharing”

Mogens Pelt

Chapter 12. The Greek Military Regime and the Cyprus Question

John Sakkas

Conclusions: The 1974 Moment of Rupture and the Legacies of a Discredited Past

Othon Anastasakis and Katerina Lagos

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lagos, Katerina
Katerina Lagos is a Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento and the Director of the CSUS Hellenic Studies Program and Hellenic Studies Center. She is the Social Sciences Book Review Editor for the Journal of Modern Greek Studies.

Anastasakis, Othon
Othon Anastasakis is the Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) and Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His most recent co-edited books include The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics, Economy and Society (I.B.Tauris, 2020) and Balkan Legacies of the Great War: The Past Is Never Dead (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Othon Anastasakis is the Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) and Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His most recent co-edited books include The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics, Economy and Society (I.B.Tauris, 2020) and Balkan Legacies of the Great War: The Past Is Never Dead (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).