The Greek Military Dictatorship : : Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974 / / ed. by Katerina Lagos, Othon Anastasakis.

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 Dictator...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (398 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction. The Greek Military Junta’s Exceptionalism in Historical and Comparative Perspectives
  • Part I. Historical and Ideological Background
  • 1. The Greek Army in Politics, 1909–67
  • 2. The Political and Ideological Origins of the Ethnosotirios Epanastasis
  • Part II. Domestic Affairs
  • 3. Economic Policy under the Greek Dictatorship Appendix: Data Sources
  • 4. Foreign Investment under the Greek Military Regime: The American Experience
  • 5. “Patient in a Cast”: How the Greek Military Regime Traumatized Education
  • 6. Can Dead Poets Speak Back? C. P. Cavafy, Cold War Propaganda, and the Greek Dictatorship
  • 7. Religion Enchained: The Church of Greece under the Military Junta
  • Part III. External Affairs
  • 8. Uneasy Alliances: Archbishop Iakovos and the Greek Colonels’ Dictatorship
  • 9. Uncle Sam Regrets: The United States and the Greek Coup of April 1967
  • 10. Britain, Europe, and the Greek Junta: “Business as Usual”
  • 11. West Germany’s Policy toward Greece during the Junta Period in the Context of “Burden-Sharing”
  • 12. The Greek Military Regime and the Cyprus Question
  • Conclusions. The 1974 Moment of Rupture and the Legacies of a Discredited Past
  • Index