Children of the Dictatorship : : Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece / / Kostis Kornetis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kornetis, Kostis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Protest, Culture & Society ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Transliteration of Greek Characters into Latin Characters -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Changing Society -- Chapter 2 Phoenix with a Bayonet -- Chapter 3 A Mosquito on a Bull -- Chapter 4 Cultural Warfare -- Chapter 5 Ten Months that Shook Greece -- Epilogue “Everything Links” -- Bibliography -- Index