Articles & Commentary

  1. Ta Nea Review: "The Public and Private Life of General Vasos Braiovits-Mavrovouniotis 1797-1847" (Stefanos Papageorgiou)

    The life of a Balkan protagonist of 1821

    The professor emeritus chooses to write the biography of Vasos Braiovits, a difficult "hero" of the Greek revolution who was of Montenegrin origin

  2. Ta Nea Review: "Chronicle of the Cyprus Tragedy" (Sotiris Rizas)

    “Distance from the events is a rough road”

    The director of the Research Centre for Modern Greek History of the Academy of Athens talks about his latest book, "Chronicle of the Cyprus Tragedy", Makarios, and the lost opportunities of the Cyprus issue

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    The democratic break

    The political climate in the first elections after the fall of the junta, on 17 November 1974, and the political legacy left by the protagonists of the period

  4. Ta Nea Review: "Theatre in Zakynthos in the 20th Century. 1901-1953" (Dionysis N. Mousmoutis)

    The unknown universe of Zakynthian theatre

    The vast theatrical history of the island in the first half of the 20th century, divided by the devastating earthquake that changed everything...

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    Kandanos: A symbol of Cretan resistance to fascism and the occupation

    "Here stood KANDANOS, destroyed in atonement for the murder of 25 German soldiers," reads an inscription

  6. Ta Nea Review: "Armenians and the Greek State in the Cold War" (Leonidas Dilsizian)

    From persecution to social integration

    The postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science and History at Panteion University seeks to shed light on the presence of Armenians in the Greek state throughout the Cold War

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    An explanation for inequality in the world

    Daron Acemoglu, one of the best-known economists of our time, presents in his work "Why Nations Fail", written with James Robinson, an ambitious theory on the causes of the prosperity and failure of nations.

  8. Ta Nea Review: "Sferdouklia on the Head" (Vrasidas Karalis)

    A tribute to grandmother Dionysia

    The professor at the University of Sydney keeps alive the memory of people who lived in difficult times, worked hard and built a strong foundation of a precious tangible and intangible heritage

  9. Ta Nea Review: "The Bloody Rally of 9 December 1923" (Ioannis V. Daskarolis) · "Peace, War, Politics, Conspiracies: The Greek Officers, 1935-1945" (Tasos Sakellaropoulos)

    The harsh coming of age of the Greek state

    Three books, one of them in a foreign language, on the critical period 1915-1945, which saw two civil wars and nine coups, the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the Metaxas dictatorship and the world wars

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    Greek soldiers without identification tags

    The military historian Savvas Vlassis describes in detail the last land clash between Greek and Turkish soldiers, on 14-16 August 1974

  11. Ta Nea Review: "The Merchant and War Fleet During the Greek Revolution (1821-1831)" (Collective work)

    The fleet that decided a Revolution

    A detailed volume that examines the naval superiority of the Greeks, which contributed so decisively to the rupture of 1821, and the fleet's part both in the fighting and in the financial support

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    The broken window

    "The Broken Window" by the 19th-century French economist Frédéric Bastiat is an essay published in 1850 and based on a phrase, "What is seen and what is not seen" (Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas), meaning that behind every decision concerning the economy there were consequences that could not be assessed.

  13. Ta Nea Review: "Crete in the Years of the Occupation (1941-1945)" (Giannis Skalidakis)

    New paths for the Battle of Crete

    The historian and political scientist puts under the microscope the lesser-known occupation universe on the island, with a rich and blunt listing of the names of the protagonists and their roles...

  14. Ta Nea Review: "The Peloponnesian Senate: A Political Institution of the Greek Revolution" (Collective work)

    A small revolution within the Revolution

    The collective volume of the National Hellenic Research Foundation on the Peloponnesian Senate, an institution formed as early as 1821, which reflected the different tendencies in the revolutionary field

  15. Ta Nea Review: "Venizelos and the Challenge of Greater Greece. Events and Reassessments" (Nikolaos Petsalis-Diomidis)

    Eleftherios Venizelos of an “unknown” historian

    The three-volume work entitled "Venizelos and the Challenge of Greater Greece" examines the important period 1910-1920 of modern Greek history

  16. Ta Nea Review: "Metaxas Against Tsaldaris" (Ioannis V. Daskarolis)

    Those who stood against Venizelos

    Two new books that, although written in different styles and around different central themes, give a wide historical range to the study of the anti-Venizelist faction and its figures in Greece

  17. Ta Nea Review: "The Collaborators" (Menelaos Charalambidis)

    The second internal “Occupation” of the collaborators

    The historian who has led the way in bringing the liberation of Athens into the public sphere offers a "difficult" book on collaboration in the Attica region

  18. Ta Nea Review: "Turkey: A Past Against History" (Christine Philliou)

    “Identities in the Ottoman Empire are a complex process”

    The professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley talks to "Ta Nea" about her latest book, "Turkey: A Past Against History"

  19. Ta Nea Review: "Greece" (Dušan Spasojević)

    1821 through the eyes of a Serbian ambassador

    With his penetrating eye, Serbia's representative in our country comes to add a large piece to our own "ailing" Balkan identity, offering us a rare image

  20. Ta Nea Review: "Islamic Fascism" (Hamed Abdel-Samad)

    Criticism of Islam from within

    The striking similarities between modern Islamism and the fascism of the 20th century, as shaped by Hitler and Mussolini