Children of the Dictatorship

Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece

Nonfiction, History, Greece, Modern, 20th Century, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Kostis Kornetis ISBN: 9781782380016
Publisher: Berghahn Books Publication: November 1, 2013
Imprint: Berghahn Books Language: English
Author: Kostis Kornetis
ISBN: 9781782380016
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication: November 1, 2013
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Language: English

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. 

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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. 

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