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Becoming a subject : political prisoners during the Greek Civil War / Polymeris Voglis.
Van Pelt Library DF849.53.P75 V64 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voglis, Polymeris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political prisoners.
- History.
- Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949--Prisoners and prisons.
- Greece.
- Political prisoners--Greece--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.
- Contents:
- Part 1 From Political Repression to Political Exclusion
- Chapter 1 The Phenomenon of Political Prisoners 19
- Political Prisoners in the Interwar Authoritarian Regimes 22
- Political Prisoners under Socialism 26
- Chapter 2 Legacies 33
- The First Signs of Political Exclusion 33
- The Dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas 39
- Occupation and Resistance 44
- Chapter 3 The Civil War: A Case of "Nation-State Rebuilding" 52
- 1945-1946: The "White Terror" 54
- 1946-1949: Institutionalized Exclusion 58
- The Elusive Subject 64
- Chapter 4 Emblems of the Civil War: Declarations of Repentance 74
- The Misguided 75
- The Renegades 79
- The Public Topos 83
- Part 2 The Body and the Psyche in Pain
- Chapter 5 A Confined Life 91
- Exile 92
- Prisons 96
- Camps 100
- Chapter 6 The Domain of Deprivation 116
- Presence 117
- Absence 120
- "Send Us your Body in a Picture" 124
- Chapter 7 Probing the Limits of the Other 130
- Torture 131
- Solitary confinement 138
- Chapter 8 "Everything Comes to an End" 145
- Dying Slowly 146
- Unexpected Death 148
- Executions 151
- Part 3 Prison as a Field of Conflict
- Chapter 9 Transforming Prison 163
- Activities 164
- Feasts 169
- Tearing Down the Walls 173
- Chapter 10 Forms of Resistance 182
- "Not Struck by the Enthusiasm of the Audience" 184
- Protests in Prisons 187
- Hunger Strikes 192
- Chapter 11 The Politics of Counterpower 199
- Becoming Communist 201
- Constructing Power: The Party Mechanism 208
- Us and Them: The Dissidents 212
- Epilogue: After Prison 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 157181308X
- 1571813098
- OCLC:
- 46909520
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