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Contemporary Greek Political History ( 1910 – 1974 )

Faculty Instructor:
Rotzokos Nikos
ECTS:
5
Code:
ΚΥ0203
Cycle / Level:
Undergraduate
Compulsory / Optional:
Compulsory
Teaching Period:
Spring
Course Content:

The course examines the political history of 20th-century Greece focusing on the following thematic areas:
1. The modernization of the Greek state and the last phase of National Unification, 1909-1922:
– The military coup of 1909, the social and political reforms of Venizelos government 1911-1914.
– The Balkan Wars, Greece in the First World War, the territorial extension, the crisis of national unification, the “National Schism” between Venizelists and Anti-Venizelists, the Greek – Ottoman War and the “Asia Minor disaster”.
2. The inter-war period and the “new” society, 1922-1940:
– The reconstruction of the State, the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), the New Lands and the Asia Minor refugees; national integration and social differentiation, the industrialisation and the Land reform.
– The Second Hellenic Republic, the crisis of the parliamentary system, Venizelism and Anti-Venizelism (Royalists and Republicans), the army interventions and the restoration of Monarchy. The Metaxas dictatorship.
3. Greece in the Second World Nar and the Greek Civil War, 1940-1949:
– Italian attack and the German invasion in Greece 1940-1941.
– The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers.
– The Resistance phenomenon: the organization of mass resistance.
– Social rupture and political inversion: from the Liberation to the Civil War, the December fighting (1944), the Varkiza Agreement (1945).
4. From the end of the Civil War to the military dictatorship, 1949-1974:
– The political system and the political forces: The “controlled/incomplete democracy”, the parties system, the Parliament, the army, the Crown and the foreigner factor.
– The postwar society and economy: the economic reconstruction, rural depopulation and immigration, the unequal postwar prosperity.
– Dictatorship (the military junta), 1967-1974.

Learning Outcomes:
After completing this course, students are expected to be able: - To describe the major social and political developments that shaped the history of Modern Greece during the 20th century - To examine and analyze individual and collective action in its historical context - To produce arguments explaining such events and developments, their causes, effects and long-term repercussions. - To identify the continuities and the discontinuities in the history of Modern Greece during the 20th century - To identify and discuss the various approaches to analyzing and understanding the past

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Head of School

Prof. Ioannis Papageorgiou

Secretary
Marina Giarenti

Address
School of Political Sciences
Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
University Campus
Postal Code 54124 Thessaloniki

Τel: (+30) 2310 995397
E-mail: info@polsci.auth.gr

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