The Greek Military Dictatorship

Author : Antonis Klapsis,Constantine Arvanitopoulos,Evanthis Hatzivassiliou,Effie G. H. Pedaliu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429797767

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The Greek Junta and the International System by Antonis Klapsis,Constantine Arvanitopoulos,Evanthis Hatzivassiliou,Effie G. H. Pedaliu Pdf

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967 to 1974 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change. The policies of the major nation-states in both East and West were determined by realistic Cold War considerations. At the same time, the Greek junta, a profoundly anti-modernist force, failed to cope with an evolving international agenda and the movement towards international cooperation. Denouncing it became a rallying point both for international organizations and for human rights activists, and it enabled the EEC to underscore the notion that democracy was an integral characteristic of the European identity. This volume is an original in-depth study of an under-researched subject and the multiple interactions of a complex era. It is divided into three sections: Part I deals with the interaction of the Colonels with state actors; Part II deals with the responses of international organizations and the rising transnational human rights agenda for which the Greek junta became a totemic rallying point; and Part III compares and contrasts the transitions to democracy in Southern Europe, and analyses the different models of transition and region-building, and how they intersected with attempts to foster a European identity. The Greek dictatorship may have been a parochial military regime, but its rise and fall interacted with signifi cant international trends and can therefore serve as a salient case study for promoting a better understanding of international and European trends during the 1960s and 1970s. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War studies, international history, foreign policy, transatlantic relations and International Relations, in general.

Author : Othon Anastasakis,Katerina Lagos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800731752

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The Greek Military Dictatorship by Othon Anastasakis,Katerina Lagos Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Clogg,George N. Yannopoulos
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081144607

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Greece Under Military Rule by Richard Clogg,George N. Yannopoulos Pdf

Author : Kostis Kornetis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782380016

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Children of the Dictatorship by Kostis Kornetis Pdf

Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these "children of the dictatorship" managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their "progressive" purposes and how their transnational exchange molded a particular local protest culture. It examines how the students' social and political practices became a major source of pressure on the Colonels' regime, finding its apogee in the three day Polytechnic uprising of November 1973 which laid the foundations for a total reshaping of Greek political culture in the following decades.

Author : Konstantina Maragkou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787383739

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Britain, Greece and The Colonels, 1967-74 by Konstantina Maragkou Pdf

The long history of Anglo-Greek relations has deservedly attracted much attention. One of its most controversial -- yet least explored -- phases was that spanning the Greek Colonels' seven-year military junta, from 1967-74. Drawing on a corpus of diverse, original and largely primary material, Maragkou provides the first comprehensive analysis of British policy towards Greece during this tumultuous era. Not only does she contribute to the historiography of Anglo- Greek relations, but her book also serves as a case study of British foreign policy within the Cold War. And by demonstrating that national history can be best understood by analyzing the relationship between a nation state and factors beyond its control, the conclusions drawn can be applied beyond the strictly regional or the exclusively bi-lateral, as they also fit into a transnational paradigm. It was in the 1960s when what we now term 'globalization' was in full swing. Henceforward, no nation -- and no foreign office -- was an island: it was part of a whole, in which both state and non-state actors internationally played their part in the evolution of thinking on foreign affairs. Here is the key to understanding the tortuous history of Britain and the Greek Colonels -- one that has many echoes in our own time.

Author : Othon Anastasakis,Katerina Lagos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1805391380

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The Greek Military Dictatorship by Othon Anastasakis,Katerina Lagos Pdf

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.

Author : Natalie Bakopoulos
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451633948

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The Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos Pdf

Depicts the 1967 Greek military coup and its aftermath as experienced by four family members--Sophie, a French literature student; her widowed mother, Eleni; Sophie's uncle Mihalis, an outspoken poet; and Sophie's younger sister, Anna.

Author : Thomas Doulis
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456838423

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The Iron Storm by Thomas Doulis Pdf

By the time of the unexpected military coup of 1967, the state and society of Greece had reached a specious political stability, one imposed under the tutelage of the right, the increasingly reactionary monarchy, and the American hegemony as expressed by the U.S. Embassy and the Pentagon. They dominated the armed forces and the Western-oriented elite, which agreed to the suppression of dissent from the marginalized and persecuted left. Although The Iron Strom appears to concentrate on the shocked and overwhelmed intelligentsia as it launched its counterattack with dissident publications, it is more accurately a large-scale study of Greek literary culture from the time of the Nazi Occupation, the Civil War (the final manifestation of the Greco-Greek War) unresolved since the founding of the state and the decades-long post war era. Since the Greek nation was part of the European community and NATO, the Greeks assumed that these provided them with rights and privileges that could not easily be negated and ignored. But it was the Junta, brutal toward the elite as well as the left, that showed them how meaningless these were and provided them with insights into how they should go about viewing their role as a vassal state and achieve a true stability.

Author : Yaprak Gursoy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472130429

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Between Military Rule and Democracy by Yaprak Gursoy Pdf

Examines military interventions in Greece, Turkey, Thailand, and Egypt, and the military's role in authoritarian and democratic regimes

Author : James H. Barron
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612198293

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The Greek Connection by James H. Barron Pdf

Spanning from WWII to the Cold War and beyond, this is the “magnificent . . . triumphant” biography of the investigative journalist, resistance fighter, and whistle blower who helped expose the Watergate scandal (Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership) He was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century political history. Yet today, Elias Demetracopoulos is strangely overlooked—even though his life reads like an epic adventure story . . . As a precocious twelve-year-old in occupied Athens, he engaged in heroic resistance efforts against the Nazis, for which he was imprisoned and tortured. After his life was miraculously spared, he became an investigative journalist, covering Greece’s tumultuous politics and America’s increasing influence in the region. A clever and scoop-hungry reporter, Elias soon gained access to powerful figures in both governments—and attracted many enemies. When the Greek military dictatorship took power in 1967, he narrowly escaped to Washington DC, where he would lead the fight to restore democracy in his homeland—while running afoul of the American government, too. Now, after a decade of research and original reporting, James H. Barron uncovers the story of a man whose tireless pursuit of uncomfortable truths would put him at odds with not only his own government, but that of the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations, making him a target of CIA, FBI, and State Department surveillance and harassment—and Greek kidnapping and assassination plots American authorities may have purposefully overlooked. A stunning feat of biographic storytelling, sweeping from World War II to the Cold War, Watergate and beyond, The Greek Connection is about a lifetime of standing up for democracy and a free press against powerful special interests. It has much to teach us about our own era’s abuses of power, dark money, journalist intimidation, and foreign interference in elections.

Author : Robert V. Keeley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271050119

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The Colonels' Coup and the American Embassy by Robert V. Keeley Pdf

The so-called Colonels&’ coup of April 21, 1967, was a major event in the history of the Cold War, ushering in a seven-year period of military rule in Greece. In the wake of the coup, some eight thousand people affiliated with the Communist Party were rounded up, and Greece became yet another country where the fear of Communism led the United States into alliance with a repressive right-wing authoritarian regime. In military coups in some other countries, it is known that the CIA and other agencies of the U.S. government played an active role in encouraging and facilitating the takeover. The Colonels&’ coup, however, came as a surprise to the United States (which was expecting a Generals&’ coup instead). Yet the U.S. government accepted it after the fact, despite internal disputes within policymaking circles about the wisdom of accommodating the upstart Papadopoulos regime. Among the dissenters was Robert Keeley, then serving in the U.S. Embassy in Greece. This is his insider&’s account of how U.S. policy was formulated, debated, and implemented during the critical years 1966 to 1969 in Greek-U.S. relations.

Author : Dominique Eudes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853452751

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The Kapetanios by Dominique Eudes Pdf

The complicated and dramatic course of the Civil War in Greece had, for lack of parties interested in reconstructing the truth of its events, never been narrated prior to the appearance of this volume. It closed a gap in the history of our times, and did so with thoroughness and vivid journalistic immediacy. In addition to the known sources and unpublished documents, the author relied on testimony painstakingly collected from survivors of the tragedy who were scattered throughout the world. It remains the authoritative account of the kapetanios, the guerrilla chiefs who organized the partisans in the Greek mountains.

Author : Susanne Voigt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656996675

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Military regimes in Turkey and Greece - A comparative analysis by Susanne Voigt Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Region: Southeastern Europe, grade: 1.7, Bilgi University İstanbul, language: English, abstract: Diese Hausarbeit untersucht die Militärregimes in der Türkei und Griechenland. Dazu wird zunächst der historische Hintergrund aufgezeigt. Im Hauptteil wird der theoretische Rahmen dargestellt und auf der Grundlage dessen der eigentliche Vergleich angestellt. Die Analyse bezieht sich auf die Militärregimes, die in beiden Ländern durch einen coup d ́état ausgelöst wurden, wobei nur die aktuellsten Militärregimes betrachtet werden, mit anderen Worten die Militärjunta in Griechenland von 1967-74 and in der Türkei von 1980-83. Im darauf folgenden Teil wird die Rolle des Militärs in der Türkei und Griechenland heute bewertet. Es wird dargestellt, wie die Art und Weise wie das Militär wahrgenommen wird, sich verändert, und somit auch seine Rolle in der heutigen Gesellschaft in Hinblick auf seine Macht und seinen Einfluss.

Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015028544867

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Eighteen Texts by Willis Barnstone Pdf

Author : Nikolaos Papadogiannis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782386452

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Militant Around the Clock? by Nikolaos Papadogiannis Pdf

During the 1970s, left-wing youth militancy in Greece intensified, especially after the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1974. This is the first study of the impact of that political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth, analyzing the cultural politics of left-wing organizations alongside the actual practices of their members. Through an examination of Maoists, Socialists, Euro-Communists, and pro-Soviet groups, it demonstrates that left-wing youth in Greece collaborated closely with comrades from both Western and Eastern European countries in developing their political stances. Moreover, young left-wingers in Greece appropriated American cultural products while simultaneously modeling some of their leisure and sexual practices on Soviet society. Still, despite being heavily influenced by cultures outside Greece, left-wing youth played a major role in the reinvention of a Greek “popular tradition.” This book critically interrogates the notion of “sexual revolution” by shedding light on the contradictory sexual transformations in Greece to which young left-wingers contributed.