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dc.contributor.authorKassimeris, George
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-20T19:45:36Z
dc.date.available2008-05-20T19:45:36Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Contemporary History, 40(4): 745-62
dc.identifier.issn00220094
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0022009405056128
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/27180
dc.description.abstractIn the years following metapolitefsi (the 1974 transition from dictatorship to multi-party democracy) a plethora of groups from the far left appeared on the Greek post-junta political scene. Obsessed with the dynamics of the Athens Polytechnic revolt of November 1973, these marginal but vocal and persistent groups viewed the process of constitutional change and democratic consolidation with deep scepticism. Many of them did not accept the legitimacy of the transfer of power and used confrontational anti-regime rhetoric and radical forms of action to denounce constitutional structures and attack the regime’s legality, conservative ethos and lack of structured political solutions. The purpose of this article is to describe the emergence and evolution of the major extra-parliamentary groups of the left and to examine their analyses and interpretations of Greek political circumstances in the late 1970s. (Sage Publications)
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.relation.urlhttp://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/4/745
dc.subjectGreece
dc.subjectPolitical history
dc.subject20th century
dc.subjectMetapolitefsi
dc.subjectConstitutional reform
dc.subjectExtra-parliamentary Left
dc.subjectJunta
dc.subjectLeft-wing politics
dc.titleJunta by Another Name? The 1974 Matapolitefsi and the Greek Extra-Parliamentary Left
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Contemporary History
html.description.abstractIn the years following metapolitefsi (the 1974 transition from dictatorship to multi-party democracy) a plethora of groups from the far left appeared on the Greek post-junta political scene. Obsessed with the dynamics of the Athens Polytechnic revolt of November 1973, these marginal but vocal and persistent groups viewed the process of constitutional change and democratic consolidation with deep scepticism. Many of them did not accept the legitimacy of the transfer of power and used confrontational anti-regime rhetoric and radical forms of action to denounce constitutional structures and attack the regime’s legality, conservative ethos and lack of structured political solutions. The purpose of this article is to describe the emergence and evolution of the major extra-parliamentary groups of the left and to examine their analyses and interpretations of Greek political circumstances in the late 1970s. (Sage Publications)


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