Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “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
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
