Articles & Commentary
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Between stereotypes, visions and challenges
The evolution of modern Greece through the analysis of social transformation, the state and the nation in the collective volume "The Great Transformation"
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Jewish Thessaloniki, part of our history
The collective volume "Modern Greek Jewry", edited by Maria Kavala, with a total of 15 texts on multiple aspects of the Jewish presence and memory
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The Kapodistrias of a philhellene
The massive biography of Greece's first governor by the former Second World War spy and head of the British mission
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From the Ottoman community to the Greek administration
In the study of the National Hellenic Research Foundation "Three Eparchs on Andros", the historian investigates the transition from the Ottoman period to the new administration
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H. D. Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”
"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was one of the most important visionaries and philosophers of 19th-century America.
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Holocaust: One of the greatest crimes in the history of humanity
This is the story of the systematic, programmatic and state-led political practice of persecution and extermination of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime, as recorded in the studies of four of the most important historians of our time.
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The Church after independence
The classic work by Charles Frazee has been reissued by Domos
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Stefanos Kavallierakis: Is Hades ever sated with bones?
Stefanos Kavallierakis: The director of the Museum of the City of Athens – Vouros-Eutaxias Foundation writes to LiFO about the day of 2020 that marked him.
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In search of 1821
Especially in the second half of 2020, publications on the Greek Revolution are increasing, preparing the ground for the celebration of 2021
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Venizelos facing his era
The social demands, populism and European politics from the advent of the politician until 1922
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9 history books on the Greek Revolution
A bibliographic path to 1821
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Greece in the time of Otto
Everyday habits in dozens of aspects of the newly founded state and the gradual detachment from the "community"
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Timothy Snyder: Lessons for freedom and solidarity
On the latest book of one of the most distinguished and eminent historians of our time
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History through maps
The impressive album on the 130-year course of the Hellenic Army Geographical Service, in cooperation with the Trikogleios Library and Aristotle University
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Crusades: The modern perspective
Peter Frankopan's book "The First Crusade: The Call from the East" (Alexandria publications, translated by G. Vogiatzis) deals with the pivotal event of the First Crusade, which set in motion a chain of events.
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The deep trauma of “collaboration”
In "Betting on the German Roulette" the author shows the extent of the spy networks and of collaboration during the Occupation
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The end of the Civil War
On 31 March 1946, with the attack by units of the Democratic Army of Greece (an army aligned with the KKE) on the Gendarmerie Station of Litochoro, the signal was given for the official start of one of the bloodiest European civil conflicts, which ended on the night of 29 August 1949, with the capture of the Kamenik height on Grammos by the Greek Army and the defeat of the Democratic Army. Military operations, of course, continued on a smaller scale until the end of 1949.
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The lost opportunity of AKEL
The stance of the Cypriot party on the national issue in the period 1960–1964 is examined in the book "For the Defence of the Homeland"
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The great journey of his life
The two volumes of the great philhellene's journey from the Netherlands to the Iron Gates of the Danube have been reissued
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The forgotten “shattering” of the Roma
The Holocaust during the Second World War, for which 2 August was recognised as Remembrance Day, commemorating the almost 500,000 victims