Militant Around the Clock?: Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981 / Edition 1

Militant Around the Clock?: Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981 / Edition 1

by Nikolaos Papadogiannis
ISBN-10:
1789200741
ISBN-13:
9781789200744
Pub. Date:
11/29/2018
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
ISBN-10:
1789200741
ISBN-13:
9781789200744
Pub. Date:
11/29/2018
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Militant Around the Clock?: Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981 / Edition 1

Militant Around the Clock?: Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981 / Edition 1

by Nikolaos Papadogiannis
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Overview

During the 1970s, left-wing youth militancy in Greece intensified, especially after the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1974. This is the first study of the impact of that political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth, analyzing the cultural politics of left-wing organizations alongside the actual practices of their members. Through an examination of Maoists, Socialists, Euro-Communists, and pro-Soviet groups, it demonstrates that left-wing youth in Greece collaborated closely with comrades from both Western and Eastern European countries in developing their political stances. Moreover, young left-wingers in Greece appropriated American cultural products while simultaneously modeling some of their leisure and sexual practices on Soviet society. Still, despite being heavily influenced by cultures outside Greece, left-wing youth played a major role in the reinvention of a Greek "popular tradition." This book critically interrogates the notion of "sexual revolution" by shedding light on the contradictory sexual transformations in Greece to which young left-wingers contributed.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789200744
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 11/29/2018
Series: Protest, Culture & Society , #13
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 342
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Nikolaos Papadogiannis is a Lecturer in Modern History at Bangor University, Wales, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He obtained his Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge in 2010, and has published articles in international journals such as European History Quarterly, Contemporary European History, Journal of Contemporary History, and the Journal of Modern Greek Studies.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration

Introduction

PART I: PRELUDE

Chapter 1. Cold War Consumers: Cultural and social transformations in the 1960s and the early 1970s

PART II: THE MID-1970S

Chapter 2. The Left gains momentum
Chapter 3. The Shadow of the Partisans

PART III: THE LATE 1970S

Chapter 4. Breaches in the wall
Chapter 5. The “moment” of the occupations in 1979 and its echo
Chapter 6. Sex and the left-wing youth around 1980. An era of controversy

Conclusions: the 1970s and their aftermath

Bibliography

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