The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974

by Othon Anastasakis (Editor), Katerina Lagos (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805394037
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/17/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	398
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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 Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis: Greece and Beyond (Palgrave, 2022), 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).

Katerina Lagos is a Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento and the Director of the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Center and Hellenic Studies Center. Her most recent publication is The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 (Palgrave, 2023).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

“This is … collective work … focuses both on foreign relations as well as domestic matters such as economics, ideology, religion, culture, and education. Most of its contributors belong to a younger generation of Greek academics who offer a well-researched, updated account of a contested national story. Their prose is concise, clear, and fluent, and the format of their work is reader friendly.” • International Journal of Military History and Historiography

“Published in the 200th anniversary year of the revolution that launched Greece as a modern European nation-state, this book examines in unprecedented depth and breadth one of the most backward-looking episodes of the country’s history. Contributors from an impressive range of disciplines deploy their expertise to make sense of this bizarre anomaly in the history of both modern Greece and the Cold War western alliance.” • Roderick Beaton, King’s College London

“No other book on the Greek military dictatorship has taken such a multi-disciplinary approach. The volume is substantively rich, diverse in content, well-researched, and timely.” • Neovi Karakatsanis, Indiana University

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