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Ioannis Metaxas
Ioannis Metaxas is among the most prominent personalities in modern Greek history, but outside Greece he is quite an unknown figure. What follows here is a short biography of Metaxas, intended to be a quick overview of him and certainly […]
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Pamphlets from the Metaxas regime at the Firestone Library in Princeton University
GUIDE TO THE GREEK PAMPHLET COLLECTION AT THE FIRESTONE LIBRARY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY File A: EON (Ethnike Organoseis Neolaias Hellados) Publications item #1 — He Gheorghia sten Hellada (Agriculture in Greece). Athens: E. O. N., 1939. 15 pages. State propaganda on […]
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John Metaxas – A short biography
John Metaxas (Greek Ιωάννης Μεταξάς, April 12, 1871 – January 29, 1941) was a Greek General and the Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death. Born in Ithaca but grown in Kefalonia, John Metaxas was a career soldier, first […]
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How Others Saw the Metaxas Regime
“The first two years of the Metaxas Regime was a productive one, full of frantic activity regarding domestic social and economic policy, regime security, and external and foreign relations: Greek-British relations, for instance, were crucial. After Metaxas and his regime […]
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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 Greek or other languages despite its momentous impact on developments in Greece both during its […]
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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 governments led King George to choose General Metaxas to head a new government in 1936. […]
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