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Pseudo-History in Recent Writing on the Greek Military

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

S. Victor Papacosma
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The overthrow of the civilian government by the military in Greece on April 21, 1967, produced among its multiple consequences an intense foreign interest in that nation. Since that spring, over fifty books and more numerous articles on the Greek “junta” have been written to satisfy the curiosity of an international clientele. Included in this literary melange are the works of journalists, scholars, celebrities, persecuted prisoners of the regime, and politicians. Together these authors tend to fall into the two broad categories of apologists for the post-April regime or—the larger group—its opponents. One may thus select from a plethora of impressions, opinions, and interpretations, with the knowledge that the works of professional scholars compose only a small segment of the total bibliography.

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Slavic Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 1975 , pp. 123 - 130
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1975

References

1. Zaharopoulos, George, “Politics and the Army in Post-War Greece,” in Greece Under Military Rule, ed. Clogg, Richard and Yannopoulos, George (London: Secker and Warburg, 1972, pp. 17–35.Google Scholar

2. Moskos, Charles C. Jr., “The Breakdown of Parliamentary Democracy in Greece, 1965-1967,” Epitheorisis Koinonikon Erevnon [Review of Social Research], nos. 7-8 (January-June 1971), pp. 3–15.Google Scholar

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4. Kourvetaris, George A., “The Role of the Military in Greek Politics,” International Review of History and Political Science, 8, no. 3 (August 1971): 91–111.Google Scholar

5. It should be noted that at the end of this paragraph Kourvetaris in parentheses refers to Legg, Keith R., Politics in Modern Greece (Stanford, 1969)Google Scholar. No specific page reference is provided, but in checking a paragraph by Legg on page 189 it becomes obvious that Kourvetaris misinterpreted the ambiguous wording of Legg's brief comments on this period.