Unit:
Department of History and ArchaeologyLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Avgeridis Emmanouil
Dissertation committee:
Ευάγγελος Καραμανωλάκης, επίκουρος καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Χάγκεν Φλάισερ, ομότιμος καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Πολυμέρης Βόγλης, αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας, Αρχαιολογίας και Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
Ιωάννα Παπαθανασίου, ερευνήτρια α΄ βαθμίδος, Εθνικό Κέντρο Κοινωνικών Ερευνών
Φωτεινή Γαζή, αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Κοινωνικής και Εκπαιδευτικής Πολιτικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Αικατερίνη Δέδε, εντεταλμένη ερευνήτρια, Ινστιτούτο Ιστορικών Ερευνών, Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών
Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου, λέκτορας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Ιστορικοποιώντας το βίωμα. Από την ελληνική Αντίσταση στην ιστορία της (1945-1967)
Translated title:
Historising Experience. From the Greek Resistance to its History (1945-1967)
Summary:
This thesis explores the making of the first historiographical narratives on the Greek Resistance, during a long period of more than two decades. The aim is twofold: on the one hand, to discuss these different narratives, that came from the actors of the past events themselves. On the other hand, to study the ways in which the personal and collective experience produced historical discourse.
With this intention, the research focuses on the agents, the means, the practices, the time, and the geography of that process, based on four axes. First, the latter should be seen as part of a broader process: that of the historisation of the Second World War in Europe within and across national borders. Second, it was not a linear process –a passing from silence to its breaking–, neither it was restricted to the political space of the Greek Left. Third, for a part of those who got involved in the Greek Resistance, their personal and collective engagement during the war was transformed to an engagement with the history of the war, a fact that effected both their personal course and the formation of the historical culture regarding the Greek 1940s. Fourth, even though the relevant production has always been closely connected with contemporary politics, it was more than a “mirror” of the political and social divisions that the 1940s created. Explicitly or implicitly, in debates on the present or future of the Greek state, or in struggles over the identity of Greek society, the war-torn history of the 1940s has been present and active in the country’s political discourse at all times since the events themselves.
The main premise of this thesis is that the most significant and effective element of the making of the Greek Resistance Historiography was a constant demand for “recognition” and “restitution”, having in its epicenter the key-notions of “justice” and “historical truth”. The thesis consists of three parts. The first part attempts a mapping of the parameters that shaped the postwar European and Greek realities, with a focus on the war experience and its legacy. The second part includes four case studies, starting from different historiographical ventures that took place from the late 1950s to the mid-1960, a period in which the public discussion on the Greek Resistance peaked. The last part of the thesis returns to its main questions and reobserves them through the prism of the cases that were examined, together with new original material. The focus of this section is on the concept of National Resistance itself, as a concept “under construction” during the first postwar decades.
Main subject category:
History
Keywords:
Historiography, Memory, World War II, National Resistance, Greece, Europe, Historical Culture, Postwar
Number of references:
777
