
After the War Was Over
Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960
Mark M. Mazower(Editor)
Princeton University Press
Published on 12. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-691-05842-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict. Extending innovative historical approaches to Greece, the contributors explore how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state. They examine how people led their lives, as communities and individuals, at a time of political polarization in a country on the front line of the Cold War's division of Europe. And they advance the ongoing reassessment of what happened in postwar Europe by including regional and village histories and by examining long-running issues of nationalism and ethnicity. Previously neglected subjects--from children and women in the resistance and in prisons to the state use of pageantry--yield fresh insights.
By focusing on episodes such as the problems of Jewish survivors in Salonika, memories of the Bulgarian occupation of northern Greece, and the controversial arrest of a war criminal, these scholars begin to answer persistent questions about war and its repercussions. How do people respond to repression? How deep are ethnic divisions? Which forms of power emerge under a weakened state? When forced to choose, will parents sacrifice family or ideology? How do ordinary people surmount wartime grievances to live together? In addition to the editor, the contributors are Eleni Haidia, Procopis Papastratis, Polymeris Voglis, Mando Dalianis, Tassoula Vervenioti, Riki van Boeschoten, John Sakkas, Lee Sarafis, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Anastasia Karakasidou, Bea Lefkowicz, Xanthippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari, Tassos Hadjianastassiou, and Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis.
By focusing on episodes such as the problems of Jewish survivors in Salonika, memories of the Bulgarian occupation of northern Greece, and the controversial arrest of a war criminal, these scholars begin to answer persistent questions about war and its repercussions. How do people respond to repression? How deep are ethnic divisions? Which forms of power emerge under a weakened state? When forced to choose, will parents sacrifice family or ideology? How do ordinary people surmount wartime grievances to live together? In addition to the editor, the contributors are Eleni Haidia, Procopis Papastratis, Polymeris Voglis, Mando Dalianis, Tassoula Vervenioti, Riki van Boeschoten, John Sakkas, Lee Sarafis, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Anastasia Karakasidou, Bea Lefkowicz, Xanthippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari, Tassos Hadjianastassiou, and Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis.
Reviews / Votes
"This is one of the most contentious and incompletely studied periods in Greek history, and these essays throw light into places which were until recently obscured by political prejudice, some of them even assumed to lie outside the bounds of historiography."--Michael Llewellyn Smith, Times Literary Supplement "This excellent collection of first-rate case studies is not only a significant contribution to the history of Greece but is of serious value to anyone interested in the comparative study of occupation and civil war, as well as reconciliation and reconstruction."--Laurie Kain Hart, Journal of Military HistoryMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
557 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-05842-9 (9780691058429)
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Mark M. Mazower
After the War Was Over
Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960
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Person
Mark Mazower is Professor of History at the University of London. He is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece, Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis, and Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, as well as editor of The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century: Historical Perspectives.
Content
Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms ix Introduction by Mark Mazower 1 Chapter One Three Forms of Political Justice: Greece, 1944-1945 by Mark Mazower 24 Chapter Two The Punishment of Collaborators in Northern Greece, 1945-1946 by Eleni Haidia 42 Chapter Three Purging the University after Liberation by Procopis Papastratis 62 Chapter Four Between Negation and Self-Negation: Political Prisoners in Greece, 1945-1950 by Polymeris Voglis 73 Chapter Five Children in Turmoil during the Civil War: Today's Adults by Mando Dalianis and Mark Mazower 91 Chapter Six Left-Wing Women between Politics and Family by Tassoula Vervenioti 105 Chapter Seven The Impossible Return: Coping with Separation and the Reconstruction of Memory in the Wake of the Civil War by Riki van Boeschoten 122 Chapter Eight Red Terror: Leftist Violence during the Occupation by Stathis N. Kalyvas 142 Chapter Nine The Civil War in Evrytania by John Sakkas 184 Chapter Ten The Policing of Deskati, 1942-1946 by Lee Sarafis 210 Chapter Eleven Protocol and Pageantry: Celebrating the Nation in Northern Greece by Anastasia Karakasidou 221 Chapter Twelve "After the War We Were All Together": Jewish Memories of Postwar Thessaloniki by Bea Lewkowicz 247 Chapter Thirteen Memories of the Bulgarian Occupation of Eastern Macedonia: Three Generations by Xantbippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari with Tassos Hadjianastassiou 273 Chapter Fourteen "An Affair of Politics, Not Justice": The Merten Trial (1957-1959) and Greek-German Relations by Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis 293 List of Contributors 303 Index 305