Rupture or Continuity? Revisiting the Basic Themes of the Historiography of the 21 April Dictatorship

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Historein Pub Date : 2021-07-06 DOI:10.12681/HISTOREIN.23213
Eleni Kouki
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What did the 1967–1974 dictatorship represent for Greece? A violent and illegal episode, a mere parenthesis in the course of its parliamentary history, or an event with deep roots in Greek society and politics? These two basic, albeit contradictory views require us to consider how the last dictatorship in Greece was conceived in public and academic discourse as well as how these two discourses interacted. The main argument of this article is that even the most self-evident concepts about the character of the 1967 dictatorship, so trivial that we hardly perceive them as concepts, emerged through complex cultural processes. More specifically, it examines a series of well-known academic texts or texts produced in academic settings, dating from the junta era to the late 1980s. Although the research on the dictatorship has progressed greatly since then, this article seeks to show that in the first two decades after its collapse, there was a rich production of perceptions regarding the dictatorship that continue to shape our understanding of the period, which is why it is essential to reflect on them.
断裂还是延续?重新审视4月21日独裁统治史学的基本主题
1967-1974年的独裁统治对希腊来说意味着什么?这是一次暴力和非法的事件,是议会历史上的一个插曲,还是一个深深植根于希腊社会和政治的事件?这两种基本的,尽管相互矛盾的观点要求我们考虑希腊最后的独裁政权是如何在公共和学术话语中被构想出来的,以及这两种话语是如何相互作用的。本文的主要论点是,即使是关于1967年独裁政权性质的最不言自明的概念,我们也很难将其视为概念,它们是通过复杂的文化过程产生的。更具体地说,它检查了一系列著名的学术文本或在学术环境中产生的文本,从军政府时代到20世纪80年代末。尽管对独裁统治的研究从那时起已经取得了很大的进展,但本文试图表明,在其崩溃后的头二十年里,关于独裁统治的大量看法继续塑造我们对这一时期的理解,这就是为什么必须反思它们的原因。
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