European University Institute Library

Children of the dictatorship, student resistance, cultural politics, and the "long 1960s" in Greece, Kostis Kornetis

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-359) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Children of the dictatorship

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Kostis Kornetis

Protest, culture and society, v. 10

student resistance, cultural politics, and the "long 1960s" in Greece

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. --, Provided by publisher

Transliteration -- Introduction -- A Changing Society -- Phoenix with a Bayonet -- A Mosquito on a Bull -- Cultural Warfare -- Tem Months that Shook Greece -- Epilogue. "Everything Links" -- Bibliography -- Index