Articles & Commentary
-
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.
-
The mystery of French letters
The until recently unpublished "War" and a more recent biography renew interest in the "great subverter"
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
From “Princess Odessa” to the Filiki Eteria and Stalin
The presence of the Greek population in the city and the wider region throughout History
-
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
-
Editor’s choice: The Cold War – a world history
Odd Arne Westad The Cold War: A World History Translated by: Despina Konstantinakou Published by Patakis, 616 pp. Price: €31 The reference book of the
-
“Anonymous”… Kapodistrias?
According to K. Th. Dimaras, there are three major texts of the Modern Greek Enlightenment, at least in terms of forming the modern Greek national consciousness and describing a complete national vision with the aim of national emancipation:
-
Abimael Guzmán: The fourth sword of the world communist movement
Who was Abimael Guzmán, the Peruvian leader of the Maoist organisation "Shining Path".
-
British liberalism and 1821
The dissenting Protestants and the development of philhellenism.
-
The man who would become a leader
A first assessment of the new biography of Eleftherios Venizelos by Michael John Llewellyn-Smith (C. Hurst and Co)
-
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.
-
The Church after independence
The classic work by Charles Frazee has been reissued by Domos
-
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.
-
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
-
9 history books on the Greek Revolution
A bibliographic path to 1821
-
Timothy Snyder: Lessons for freedom and solidarity
On the latest book of one of the most distinguished and eminent historians of our time
-
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.
-
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"