The Cold War and the Appropriation of Memory: Greece after Liberation
The Cold War and the Appropriation of Memory: Greece after Liberation
Author(s): Mark MazowerSubject(s): Civil Society, Military history, Political history, Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Cold-War History, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Cold War; the Second World War; memory; Greece; national liberation struggle; resistance movement; Communism; anti-communism; anti-Fascism;
Summary/Abstract: Everywhere in Europe the obsessions and polarities of the cold war era imposed themselves upon people's understandings and memories of the Second World War, but in few, if any, countries can they have done so with greater force or speed than in Greece. Well before the Truman Doctrine revealed Greece's importance as a locus for the cold war, perhaps even before the December 1944 fighting between the British and the National Liberation Front/Greek People's Liberation Army (EAM/ELAS), the left-wing resistance movement, the conflict between communism and anticommunism had overlaid and superseded the struggle against fascism. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 09/1995
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 272-294
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English
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