The April coup was the last successful military movement to overthrow democracy on European soil. The Greek people as well as the international community saw it as a harmful and painful anachronism. This collective work seeks to illuminate interdisciplinary unexplored aspects of the traumatic experience of the coup and the seven-year dictatorship of the colonels, such as the ideological and institutional dimension, the position of the Greek dictatorship in the wider international debate on authoritarian regimes and authoritarian regimes. specific era, the relationship of the dictatorial regime with the international system, as well as the legacy of dictatorship for post-Greece Greece and its long-term impact in Greek society and politics. In each case, dictatorship marked Greece's post-war course and its in-depth and chilling study is essential to our national self-consciousness.
