Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the present |
Place of Publication | Malden (USA) & Oxford (UK) |
Publisher | Wiley Blackwell |
Volume | IV |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-405-19807-3, Immanuel Ness |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-405-18464-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2009 |
Abstract
Greek history after the 1967-1974 dictatorship is characterized by a transition from a post‐civil war police state to democratic stability, known as "metapolitefsi". This process was to a large extent a reaction to the forceful socialist and communist movement, leading to a deeper integration of the traditional left in the “national backbone” of political life. At the same time, grassroots movements and a dynamic extra‐parliamentary left contested this political mutation and reinforced antagonistic struggles, on some occasions with spectacular results.
Keywords
- Greece 1974 - 2008
- communist - socialist movements
- revolutionary left
- political history
- democracy
- student movements