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 922-109 LaTrobe-MG1GG:Greece & Greeks in 20thC.

Note

Special enrolment arrangements apply. Students must contact the Faculty of Art office for application forms and further details. This subject must be taken by those students intending to complete a major in Modern Greek.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Gabriella Etmektsoglou

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures (one in Greek or one in English), and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject examines the political, social and economic institutions of contemporary Greece and Cyprus commencing with the aftermath of the Asia Minor disaster of 1922. Students should become familiar with issues such as the settlement of the refugees and its consequences; the impact on Greek society and culture of a clash between a democratic, a communist and a racially-ordered Europe; Greece's experience in World War II and the origins of the Greek Civil War; unemployment, emigration and the 'economic miracle' of the 1950s and 1960s; urbanisation and rural displacement; the 'oligarchic' parliamentarism of the postwar years and the 1967 military coup; the Socialist experiment and europeanisation in the 1980s; the Cyprus question and Greek foreign policy in the 1980s and 1990s; and the role of education and civil society as agents of democratisation and modernisation.

Assessment

A 1500 word tutorial paper, a 2000 word essay, and either a 1500 word reflective essay or a 90-minute test, and class participation.

Prescribed Texts

Materials prepared by the Department.

  • R Clogg (ed), Greece, 1981-89. The Populist Decade. St Martin's Press, 1993.
  • N Mouzelis, Modern Greece: Facets of Underdevelopment. Holmes & Meier, 1978.
  • J Dubisch, Gender and Power in Rural Greece. Princeton University Press, 1986.
  • M Mazower, Inside Hitler's Greece. Yale University Press, 1993.
  • K Van Dyck, Kassandra and Censors. 1998.
  • D Constas & T Stavrou (ed), Greece Prepares for the Twenty-first Century. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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