The Greek Military Dictatorship

Othon Anastasakis is the Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) and Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His most recent co-edited books include Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis: Greece and Beyond (Palgrave, 2022), The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics, Economy and Society (I.B. Tauris, 2020) and Balkan Legacies of the Great War: The Past Is Never Dead (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

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Foreword and Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Greek Military Junta’s Exceptionalism in a Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Othon Anastasakis and Katerina Lagos



Part I: Historical and Ideological Background



Chapter 1. The Greek Army in Politics, 1935–67

André Gerolymatos



Chapter 2. The Political and Ideological Origins of the Ethnosotirios Epanastasis

Katerina Lagos



Part II: Domestic Affairs



Chapter 3. Economic Policy under the Greek Dictatorship

Andreas Kakridis



Chapter 4. Foreign Investment under the Greek Military Regime: The American Experience

Nicholas James Kalogerakos



Chapter 5. “Patient in a Cast”: How the Greek Military Regime Traumatised Education

Othon Anastasakis



Chapter 6. Can Dead Poets Speak Back?: C. P. Cavafy, Cold War Propaganda, and the Greek Dictatorship

Foteini Dimirouli



Chapter 7. Religion Enchained: The Church of Greece under the Military Junta

Charalampos Andreopoulos and Athanasios Grammenos



Part III: External Affairs



Chapter 8. Uneasy Alliances: Archbishop Iakovos and the Greek Colonels’ Dictatorship

Alexander Kitroeff



Chapter 9. Uncle Sam Regrets: The United States and the Greek Coup of April 1967

James Edward Miller



Chapter 10. Britain, Europe, and the Greek Junta: “Business as Usual”

Alexandros Nafpliotis



Chapter 11. West Germany’s Policy toward Greece during the Junta-Period in the Context of “Burden-Sharing”

Mogens Pelt



Chapter 12. The Greek Military Regime and the Cyprus Question

John Sakkas



Conclusions: The 1974 Moment of Rupture and the Legacies of a Discredited Past

Othon Anastasakis and Katerina Lagos



Index