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Raftopoulos Rigas |
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Le radici politiche del nazionalismo greco nel XX secolo. Dal regime di Ioannis Metaxas (1936-40) al regime dei colonnelli (1967-74); | ||
in Nazioni e Regioni , n. 3 , 2014 , 89-100 | ||
In the XX century Greece lived some of the most important moments of is history, including Ioannis Metaxas’s dictatorship (1936-40), the colonels’ dictatorship (1967-74), the Civil War (1946-49) and the catastrophe in Asia Minor (1918-22). Metaxas tried to articulate a discourse on nation by referring to a longterm context dating back to classical Greece. The colonels demonstrated all their profound cultural backwardness and ideological fanaticism in a sketch of national discourse that proved always weak, raving and at times even ludicrous. In Greece, in the past century, the discourse on nation remained fundamentally related, from the political point of view, to its XIX century definition exported from Western Europe, and it seldom acquired original and autonomously elaborated traits. Full text available online download | ||