Children Of The Dictatorship

Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the Long 1960s, 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 children of the dictatorship managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their progressive 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. Review: - [A]n outstanding political, social, and cultural history of youthful opposition to the Greek military dictatorship.

It is thoroughly researched, thoughtfully crafted, theoretically rich, and beautifully written. It will immediately be an important text for those studying the global history of the 1960s, international manifestations of a new youth culture that emerged in the last third of the twentieth century, and the history of modern Greece. * James N.

Green, Brown University This is the first book in English that presents the history of the Greek youth that staged the most spectacular resistance to the 1967-1974 dictatorship, the 'Polytechnic' generation. Kornetis manages to contextualize the Greek youth movement within the cultural and political movements of the 'Long 1960s,' without losing touch with the specificity of the Greek sociopolitical developments. * Dimitris Papanikolaou, St.

Cross College, Oxford [A] signal contribution to the fields of the history of the 'Long 1960s' as well as of protest research in Europe. * Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Humboldt University, Berlin