Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Νεώτερη και Σύγχρονη Ελληνική ΙστορίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Triantafyllou Christos
Dissertation committee:
Επιβλέπων: Ευάγγελος Καραμανωλάκης, αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Μέλος: Αικατερίνη Γαρδίκα, πρώην αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Μέλος: Χριστίνα Κουλούρη, καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Ιστορίας, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Μέλος: Ευάνθης Χατζηβασιλείου, καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Μέλος: Σπυρίδων Πλουμίδης, αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Μέλος: Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου, επίκουρη καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Μέλος: Αικατερίνη Δέδε, εντεταλμένη ερευνήτρια, ΙΙΕ/ΕΙΕ
Original Title:
Ο Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος στη συλλογική μνήμη: Η ανάδειξη ενός εθνικού συμβόλου (1936-1967). Πολιτικές χρήσεις, ιστοριογραφικές αποτυπώσεις, δημόσιες μνημονεύσεις
Translated title:
Eleftherios Venizelos in Collective Memory: The Emergence of a National Symbol (1936-1967). Political Uses, Historiographical Depictions, Public Commemorations
Summary:
This thesis concerns the various commemorations, invocations and appropriations of Eleftherios Venizelos by an array of different agents, political parties and organizations, from his death in 1936 until 1967. The principal research question is how Venizelos, the leader of one out of the two opposing factions during the National Schism, transformed into a widely accepted political figure and a national symbol. Subsequently, two central questions arose: first, why was Venizelos, out of several political leaders of this era, selected as a person to be commemorated; second, which trajectory did these commemorations follow as a historical phenomenon. My research hypothesis is that the gradual acceptance of Venizelos as a symbol did not occur as a mere result of the passage of time, but as a product of specific political and social agendas, as well as a part of historical procedures regarding the reevaluation and historicization of the recent past.
Methodologically, the research draws from the cultural history of the political, from memory studies and from reputation studies. The sources studied include archives of politicians and organizations, 30 newspapers and periodicals, as well as a textual corpus about Venizelos and his era: historiographical accounts, books, memoirs, political pamphlets, official publications by the State and the Army, schoolbooks, encyclopedias, etc.
Some central conclusions of this thesis are the following: from 1936 until 1967, Eleftherios Venizelos was commemorated and invoked by agents of the whole political spectrum, for various reasons and on various occasions. These political invocations of Venizelos occurred simultaneously with specific procedures of historicizing his era on the fields of historiography, public history and public commemorations. Through these invocations and commemorations, the narrative that prevailed was the one of the Centrists, who principally carried out the memory work about Venizelos. This narrative was further popularized during the Metapolitefsi, a period during which Eleftherios Venizelos was unquestionably established in collective memory as ‘’εθνάρχης’’ (father of the nation).
Main subject category:
History
Keywords:
Eleftherios Venizelos, Collective Memory, Political History, Cultural History, History of Historiography
Number of references:
278
