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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.
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List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction Chapter 1. A Changing Society
Universities between Progression and Regression
Student Activism
Teds and yé-yés: Youth culture
Generation Z
Continuities and ruptures in contentious politics
Chapter 2. Phoenix with a Bayonet
Passivity, Consensus, Resistance
Tidying up the university
'68 as a point of reference
Life is Elsewhere: Greek Students Abroad
"The first square meters of liberated Greek soil"
The Greek Carbonari
Home-grown revolutionaries
The terrible solitude of Rigas Feraios
The historical generation retires
Chapter 3. A Mosquito on a Bull
Competing youth cultures
Heirs and defectors
Tale of two cities
Political opportunities
Technocracy and its discontents
Marx's children
The Reformists
The Robespierres
The "other" among student groups
Chapter 4. Cultural Warfare
Media and Publishing Strategies
The arrival of the 3 M's in Colonels' Greece
Cinema as a Gun
"Tickets to freedom": Theater
The musical culture wars
Gendered militancy and "sexual revolution"
Revolutionizing everyday life
Chapter 5. Ten Months that Shook Greece
The Movement Gains Prestige
"Anything But May '68": The Law School occupations
The Cost of Participation
A "glocal" movement
The mission of the youth
"This is what Revolution must be like": The Polytechnic events
The copycat occupation
After the Revolution
Metapolitefsi and beyond
Epilogue
"Everything Links"
Events
Medium-length: Utopias and outcomes
Future's past: Cultural changes
Bibliography
Interviews
Periodicals
Archives
Published Sources
Secondary Sources
Film
Documentaries
Television Documentaries
Music
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Kostis Kornetis is Assistant Professor at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. He received his PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute, Florence. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the History Department at Brown University. His research focuses on the history and memory of the 1960s, the methodology of oral history, and the use of film as a source for social and cultural history.
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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).
