Greek Military Dictatorship

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).

“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

• List of IllustrationsForeword and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Greek Military Junta’s Exceptionalism in a Historical and Comparative PerspectivesOthon Anastasakis and Katerina LagosPart I: Historical and Ideological BackgroundChapter 1. The Greek Army in Politics, 1935–67André GerolymatosChapter 2. The Political and Ideological Origins of the Ethnosotirios EpanastasisKaterina LagosPart II: Domestic AffairsChapter 3. Economic Policy under the Greek DictatorshipAndreas KakridisChapter 4. Foreign Investment under the Greek Military Regime: The American ExperienceNicholas James KalogerakosChapter 5. “Patient in a Cast”: How the Greek Military Regime Traumatised EducationOthon AnastasakisChapter 6. Can Dead Poets Speak Back?: C. P. Cavafy, Cold War Propaganda, and the Greek DictatorshipFoteini DimirouliChapter 7. Religion Enchained: The Church of Greece under the Military JuntaCharalampos Andreopoulos and Athanasios GrammenosPart III: External AffairsChapter 8. Uneasy Alliances: Archbishop Iakovos and the Greek Colonels’ DictatorshipAlexander KitroeffChapter 9. Uncle Sam Regrets: The United States and the Greek Coup of April 1967James Edward MillerChapter 10. Britain, Europe, and the Greek Junta: “Business as Usual”Alexandros NafpliotisChapter 11. West Germany’s Policy toward Greece during the Junta-Period in the Context of “Burden-Sharing”Mogens PeltChapter 12. The Greek Military Regime and the Cyprus QuestionJohn SakkasConclusions: The 1974 Moment of Rupture and the Legacies of a Discredited PastOthon Anastasakis and Katerina LagosIndex