The forgotten Metaxas Line
The political establishment is attempting to toss the name of the architect of the epos of 1940-41, Ioannis Metaxas, into oblivion. Following the news on […]
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A review of “The Metaxas Dictatorship: Aspects of Greece 1936-1940″
This is a review of the “The Metaxas Dictatorship: Aspects of Greece 1936-1940″ book. The dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas has produced little substantive scholarship in […]
Read more »Short account of the Greek Epopee of 1940
Sixty years have gone by since the Second World War (WW II) storm hit Greece in 1940, bringing her untold suffering until her 1944 liberation […]
Read more »The Metaxas dictatorship
Petty politics in Greece and the so-called National Schism divided Greek politics and society in the mid-1930s. A number of coups d’état and sudden changes of […]
Read more »The past in Metaxas’ ideology
In his The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge 1985), David Lowenthal has demonstrated that whether by celebrating some of its aspects [or] expunging others, […]
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