Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the qLong 1960s, q 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 qchildren of the dictatorshipq managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their qprogressiveq 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.Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the aquot;Long 1960s, aquot; this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74).
Title | : | Children of the Dictatorship |
Author | : | Kostis Kornetis |
Publisher | : | Berghahn Books - 2013-11-15 |
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