Abstract
The seven-year rule of the Greek junta, from 1967 to 1974, has received much attention but little satisfactory analysis. It has been used as the basis for case studies of imperialism, CIA conspiracy, and third-world development. But the specificity of the Greek social formation and its relevance for understanding the roots and nature of the dictatorship remain relatively unexplored. The aim of this chapter is to examine some of the structural causes for the rise and fall of the Greek military regime. It does not attempt an account of the complicated events surrounding the actual seizure of power, but will concentrate on the long-term effects of economic and class developments, for these, although they do not directly determine, set limits to what is possible on the level of the political superstructure at a given historical moment.
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S. Gregoriadis, History of contemporary Greece (in Greek), Athens 1974, vol. II, pp. 140–219.
C. A. Coombs, Postwar public finance in Greece, London 1947.
Cf. National Accounts of Greece 1948–70 pp. 120–1. For a detailed analysis of the growth of the Greek economy, cf. N. Vernicos, L’économie de la Grèce 1950–1970 unpub. thesis., University of Paris VIII, vol. I.
D. Psilos, Capital market in Greece, Centre of Economic Research, Athens 1964, pp. 185–6.
Cf. H. Ellis et al., Industrial capital in the development of the Greek economy (in Greek), Centre of Economic Research, Athens 1965, pp. 197–204.
B. Nefeloudis, Demythisation with numbers (in Greek), Athens 1973, p. 146.
For some of the reasons which can explain this inability, cf. E. Kartakis, Le Développement industriel de la Grèce Lausanne 1970, pp. 20 ff.
Cf. D. Karageorgas, ‘The distribution of tax burden by income groups in Greece’, Economic Journal, June 1973.
Cf. T. Lianos, Wages and employment (in Greek), Athens 1975, p. 89.
Cf. S. Gregoriadis, The history of the dictatorship, Athens 1975, vol. I, p. 14. This should not be confused with the ‘Prometheus’ plan used by the same team to take power in April 1967.
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Mouzelis, N.P. (1978). Capitalism and Dictatorship in Post-War Greece. In: Modern Greece. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05006-2_7
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