Lectures

The purpose of the course is for the student to understand the historical depth of the formation of the various political, administrative, economic or social institutions of the Greek state in the two centuries of its modern history and to understand the historical continuities and intersections, which govern and ultimately shape the their special character in the present.

By completing the course, students will have acquired:

Knowledge of: a) The most important historical events and phenomena of the Greek 19th and 20th centuries and their often conflicting interpretations, b) The most important historical continuities and discontinuities of modern and contemporary Greek political history.

Skills: a) To discuss the various and different historiographical approaches of the past, b) To prepare papers related to all the previous ones.

Abilities: a) To describe the most important social, cultural and political developments that shaped the history of modern Greece in the 19th and 20th centuries, b) To examine and analyze individual and collective action in its historical relevance, c) To produce arguments with which will explain the events and developments, their causes, their results and their long-term consequences, d) To understand the effects of the evolution of the Greek state on the administrative phenomenon.

- Independent work

- Work in an interdisciplinary environment

- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism

- Exercise criticism and self-criticism

- Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking

1. Pre-Revolutionary Institutions and Social Stratification of the Orthodox Millet in the Ottoman Empire

2. The Greeks create their nation: Revolution of 1821, war events, social conflicts and Constitutions during the period of the struggle for independence

3. The Greeks create their state: The Kapodistrian period (1827-1831) (the centralized model of administration of the governor I. Kapodistrias and the conflicts with the powerful local powers)

4. The period of absolute monarchy (1833-1843): Institutions of the Greek kingdom during the period of the Regency and Otto

5. Constitutional monarchy (1843-1862): Factions, parties and M. Powers until the dethronement of Otto

6. Multipartyism and instability (1862-1882): the interventionist role of the crown

7. The tripartite modernization and the reform of the state (1882-1893)

8. The political system in crisis (1893-1909)

9. A. Venizelism – national division and doubling of Greece (1909-1924)

B. Entrenchment and national reconstruction (1924-1936)

10. Metaxa Dictatorship – Greek-Italian war – occupation – civil war (1936-1949)

11. The post-war grid of power in the system of controlled democracy established after the end of the occupation and the civil war (1946-1967)

12. The dictatorship of the Colonels and the Cyprus issue (1967-1974)

13. Postcolonization: democratization and contradictions of the Third Hellenic Republic (1974-2010)

- Language of Evaluation: greek

Type of evaluation: Conclusive

- Form of assessment: Essay Development questions (60% of the mark) - short answer questions (20%) - written work with public presentation (20%)

- Evaluation criteria: Understanding of concepts and methods resulting from the adequacy and conceptual completeness of the answers

- The criteria can be accessed in the rubric "Course information-Methods of assessment / examination" on the course website..

1. Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Phases and contradictions of the Greek state in the 20th century, 1910-2001, Estia ed., 2019.

INDICATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY (in alphabetical order)

1. Th. Veremis, The army in Greek politics. From Independence to Democracy, Courier Publishing, Athens 2000

2. G. Voulgaris, Postcolonial Greece. Stable democracy marked by post-war history, 1974-1990, Foundation, Athens 2001

3. D. Close, The Greek Civil War, 1943-1950. Studies on polarization, Philistor, Athens 1997

4. St. Damianakos, From the villager to the farmer. The Greek rural society facing globalization, Exantas-EKKE, Athens 2002

5. G. Dertilis, Social transformation and military intervention, 1880-1909, Exantas, Athens 1985

6. G. Herring, The political parties in Greece, 1821-1936, volumes 2, M.I.E.T. 2004

7. E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolutions, 1789-1848, M.I.E.T., Athens 1992

8. E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875, M.I.E.T., Athens 1994

9. E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empires, 1875-11914, M.I.E.T., Athens 2000

10. E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991. The short twentieth century, Themelio, Athens 1997

11. G.Th. Mavrogordatos – Chr. Hatziiosif (ed.), Venizelism and urban modernization, University Press of Crete, Heraklion 1992

12. V. Panagiotopoulos (ed.), History of New Hellenism, 1770-2000, volumes 10, Greek Letters, Athens 2003

13. J.P. Petropoulos, Politics and organization in the Greek kingdom (1833-1843), volumes 2, M.I.E.T., Athens 1986

14. N. Offenstadt (ed.), The words of the historian. Key concepts in the study of history, Kedros, Athens 2007

15. E. Skopetea, The "Model Kingdom" and the Great Idea. Aspects of the national problem in Greece (1830-1880), Polytypo publications, Athens 1988