In this historical composition –the primary material of which has been drawn from archives, newspapers, and magazines from Greece and abroad– Greek 1947 is examined in relation to international 1947 as a meeting of the Greek experience with that of other nations in the context of the early Cold War.

The Greek Civil War was a critical front in the emerging Cold War division of the world, and around it pre-existing identities and ideologies, such as anti-communism and nationalism, merged with new concepts like national awareness and pro-Atlanticism.

The stakes of "Greek freedom," threatened by "Asian despotism," captured the West's attention on multiple levels.

At the same time, local events and national histories occupied public opinion and influenced the feelings and lives of everyday people on a global scale: from the transportation of Greek children to Eastern Bloc countries, the uprising in Hungary, and the "leap to freedom" of Russian teacher Oksana Kazenkina, to the speeches of émigrés and those who experienced communism on the opposite side of the "Iron Curtain," popular stories emerged that moved and were exploited by national propaganda.

At the same time, anti-totalitarian thought began to systematize during that period and acquire an international character, bequeathing mental categories and perceptual ways that have since become part of a "global" culture of the West.