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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798740803321

Autore

Gerolymatos André

Titolo

An International Civil War : Greece, 1943-1949 / / André Gerolymatos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-300-18230-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

949.507/4

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Greece (see also Ancient / Greece)

Greece History Civil War, 1944-1949

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Dramatis Personae -- Abbreviations and Terms -- Prologue -- 1. Origins -- 2. Authoritarianism, War, and Occupation -- 3. The Politics of Violence: From Resistance to Civil War -- 4. Bloody December: The Second Round of the Civil War -- 5. The Pogrom of the Left: The Prelude to White Terror -- 6. Balkan Machinations: KKE, CPY, and the Macedonian Conundrum -- 7. The Politics of Hate and Retribution -- 8. From Insurgency to Civil War -- 9. The Cauldron of Battle: Grammos and Vitsi -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history André Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the shaping of policy and politics in post-Second World War Europe and America and was a key starting point of the Cold War. Based in part on recently declassified documents from Greece, the United States, and the British Intelligence Services, this masterful study sheds new light on the aftershocks that have rocked Greece in the seven decades following the end of the bitter hostilities.