Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece (Protest #10) (Paperback)

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Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece (Protest #10) (Paperback)

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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.

Product Details ISBN: 9781785330339
ISBN-10: 1785330330
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Date: November 1st, 2015
Pages: 392
Language: English
Series: Protest