Articles & Commentary
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The “margin” in History
Two new publications, one on the brothel of Vourla in Drapetsona through written sources and the other on the history of drug addiction in Greece, bring the "invisible" of society back into historiography
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1922 without embellishments and “camps”
The historian's new expanded edition on the end of the Great Idea, Eleftherios Venizelos and anti-Venizelism
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The institution that would impose order in an age of confusion
Research and narrative on the creation of the City Police during the interwar period
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8 books on Russia and Ukraine
A selection of important books on the history of Russia and Ukraine that can serve as valuable guides for understanding today's events.
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New historians on the old trauma
The collective volume "And the East, a fountain of blood", published by Govostis, on the causes and consequences of the Asia Minor Catastrophe
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Portrait of a Greek communist at a young age
The "Memories" of the interwar Left intellectual add a link to the narrative of the struggle of ideas
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Espionage in the Cold War years
The Cold War has many episodes, geostrategic, military and political. But the game of espionage is a chapter of its own.
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The mystery of French letters
The until recently unpublished "War" and a more recent biography renew interest in the "great subverter"
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A history of early nationalism
The transition from the "pre-national" to the national phase of Mediterranean history in Konstantina Zanou's "Stammering the Nation"
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The Empire of Cotton
The social and political evolution of industrial capitalism in an award-winning book that is now also available in Greek from Crete University Press.
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Kundera’s battle for Europe
The European Civil War over supremacy in Eastern Europe regained interest, with tragic dimensions, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it also brought to the fore an issue that was never closed: the battle for the heart of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Pontic Hellenism, the Hellenism of the East
The historical framework of the development of Pontic Hellenism from the Byzantine period, the persecutions and the annihilation after the advance of the Young Turks and Kemal Atatürk
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New pieces in the research on 1821
Original research on archival material relating to 1821 by young researchers of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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War in Ukraine: A new Yalta or new dilemmas?
We are used to saying that History does not repeat itself, and probably that it is not taught either. But its analogies are often striking, creating successive but not identical historical cycles.
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An election for Europe
After the tragic events of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the French presidential elections are of enormous importance for Europe. Emmanuel Macron, an advocate of the doctrine of European sovereignty and in effect the sole exponent of a European foreign policy, faces Marine Le Pen in an electoral battle, in an election distinguished by its inward-looking and always particularly French character.
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War at the centre of History
The new book by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, "War: How Conflict Shaped Us"
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From “Princess Odessa” to the Filiki Eteria and Stalin
The presence of the Greek population in the city and the wider region throughout History
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Britain – Russia: an odd couple
The relations between the two states, starting from the Battle of Navarino, by the experienced former British minister
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The French “Days” of George Seferis
The French edition of the Nobel laureate's diary entries by Antoine Jaccottet, founder and director of the publishing house Le Bruit du Temps, and the translator Gilles Ortlieb
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Ziller and his era
The life and work of one of the architects who shaped the image of modern Athens, through the volume "Memoirs of Ernst Ziller"