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Book SynopsisExtending historical approaches to Greece, this work contains essays that map a social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled - bloodily - with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict. It explores how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state.
Trade Review"This is one of the most contentious and incompletely studied periods in Greek history, and these essays throw light into places which were until recently obscured by political prejudice, some of them even assumed to lie outside the bounds of historiography."--Michael Llewellyn Smith, Times Literary Supplement "This excellent collection of first-rate case studies is not only a significant contribution to the history of Greece but is of serious value to anyone interested in the comparative study of occupation and civil war, as well as reconciliation and reconstruction."--Laurie Kain Hart, Journal of Military History
Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Glossary of Terms ix Introduction by Mark Mazower 1 Chapter One Three Forms of Political Justice: Greece, 1944-1945 by Mark Mazower 24 Chapter Two The Punishment of Collaborators in Northern Greece, 1945-1946 by Eleni Haidia 42 Chapter Three Purging the University after Liberation by Procopis Papastratis 62 Chapter Four Between Negation and Self-Negation: Political Prisoners in Greece, 1945-1950 by Polymeris Voglis 73 Chapter Five Children in Turmoil during the Civil War: Today's Adults by Mando Dalianis and Mark Mazower 91 Chapter Six Left-Wing Women between Politics and Family by Tassoula Vervenioti 105 Chapter Seven The Impossible Return: Coping with Separation and the Reconstruction of Memory in the Wake of the Civil War by Riki van Boeschoten 122 Chapter Eight Red Terror: Leftist Violence during the Occupation by Stathis N. Kalyvas 142 Chapter Nine The Civil War in Evrytania by John Sakkas 184 Chapter Ten The Policing of Deskati, 1942-1946 by Lee Sarafis 210 Chapter Eleven Protocol and Pageantry: Celebrating the Nation in Northern Greece by Anastasia Karakasidou 221 Chapter Twelve "After the War We Were All Together": Jewish Memories of Postwar Thessaloniki by Bea Lewkowicz 247 Chapter Thirteen Memories of the Bulgarian Occupation of Eastern Macedonia: Three Generations by Xantbippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari with Tassos Hadjianastassiou 273 Chapter Fourteen "An Affair of Politics, Not Justice": The Merten Trial (1957-1959) and Greek-German Relations by Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis 293 List of Contributors 303 Index 305
