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The civil war, with the tens of thousands of dead on the battlefields, the executions of political prisoners, and the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons, constituted a profoundly traumatic experience that deeply divided Greek society for decades, into winners and losers.
This division affected both scientific and public discourse, which revolved around the question of "who is to blame," aiming to assign responsibility for the outbreak of the civil war to one of the two opponents. The book poses a different question: what was the Greek civil war? This war was not a premeditated decision by either side but rather the result of a complex process.
Starting from the explosive situation that had developed in Greece after the Occupation, the author examines how political polarization, through violence and persecution, gradually transformed into military conflict. He also explores the interaction between society and the political actors, as it was shaped by the new realities created by the conflict. Both the government and the insurgents sought to mobilize society on their side and neutralize the social bases of their opponent, while different dynamics developed between the cities and the countryside regarding their level of involvement in the war.
The book provides a synthetic approach to the civil war. Focusing on the Democratic Army of Greece, it argues that the Greek civil war was a revolution, even if, as it unfolded, it could not be victorious – in other words, even if it was an impossible revolution.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Polymeris Voglis
- Publisher
- Alexandreia
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
- -
- Type
- Academic History
- Theme
- World History, Modern and Contemporary Greece
- Time Period
- World War II
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- The social dynamics of the civil war
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 424
- Release Date
- 11/2021
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Dimensions
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789602215760
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