Raise Your Soul - A Personal History of Resistance

Eleni put an arm around him and said: ''Come, come, life is ahead of us. Raise your soul now. We have much to do.'' This is a book about how the great forces of history shape us - and how world-famous political activist Yanis Varoufakis was inspired by the resilience and the courage of his family, from his mother Eleni and grandmothers Anna and Trisevgeni, to his partner Danae. It is both an intimate portrait of a political awakening and a dramatic sweep through Greece''s history of post-colonial independence, Nazi occupation, communist partisan resistance, Cold War fracture, civil war, fascist dictatorship, socialist revival and tumultuous present-day economic collapse. Raise Your Soul is a powerful tale of resistance and endurance - a beacon of hope for dark times.

About the author

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, political leader and the author of numerous bestselling books: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism; Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, which shows how the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords; Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece; an economic history of Europe, And The Weak Suffer What They Must?; and Another Now: Dispatches from An Alternative Present. Born in Athens in 1961, he was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered politics. He is co-founder of the international grassroots movement DiEM25 and a Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.

Report

This is a gripping book - written with compassion and wit - by a uniquely gifted and multi-faceted writer. It's a history of modern Greece, it's a biography of an extraordinary family, and sometimes it reads like a thriller. Most of all though it's a humble homage to the truly unusual women who have moulded and enriched Yanis Varoufakis's unusual life. I strongly recommend it Brian Eno

Product details

• Authors: Yanis Varoufakis
• Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2025
• EAN: 9781847929075
• ISBN: 978-1-84792-907-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Greece, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Family history, tracing ancestors, Social and cultural history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, Invasion, conquest and occupation, Political activism / Political engagement, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Family History & Genealogy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs