090101 PS Der Bürgerkrieg in Griechenland (1945-1949) (2016W)

This seminar will address the main questions concerning the impact of the civil war in Modern Greek History as well as in contemporary Greek and political culture. At the same time, we will adopt a transnational and comparative perspective, trying to determine the position of the Greek civil war in the long process of dissolution of European multiethnic empires and the making of postwar republican regimes. Thus, approaching the Greek 1940s as a joint process of revolution and counterrevolution, nation- and state-rebuilding, we will develop three main thematic axes:
(a) a factual one, concerning the outbreak of a civil conflict already under the Axis Occupation, the integration of former Nazi-collaborators into the state apparatus after Liberation, the White Terror and the civil war that took place between 1946-1949.
(b) an interpretational one, concerning the opposing narratives of the winners and the vanquished of the civil war during the Cold War and thereafter.
(c) a memorial one concerning the memories and silences of traumatic events that found their way through cultural or political practices in the postwar period.