The coercive impulse: Policing labour in interwar Greece

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Seferiades, Seraphim ^a  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

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EID: 34248032957     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022009405049266     Document Type: Article

References (28)

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2. For a stunning application of the relational approach to the study of contentious politics, see D. McAdam, S. Tarrow and C. Tilly, Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge 2001)
3. See R. Koundouros, The Security of the Regime: Political Prisoners, Banishment, and Classes in Greece, 1924-74 (Athens 1978) [in Greek], 58
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10. See Revolutionary Resolution No. 20444, Athens, 20 August 1923
11. For a trenchant analysis of the 'political opportunities' problématique, see D. McAdam, J. McCarty and M. Zald (eds), Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements. Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, Cultural Framings (Cambridge/New York 1996), Part I
12. See also S. Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge/New York 1998)
13. D. Livieratos, Social Struggles in Greece (1927-31). From Contempt on to a New Dawn (Athens 1987) [in Greek], 76. Similar eruptions took place in Volos (1921), Agrinion (1926), Kavala (1933), Heraclion (1935) and, above all, Thessaloniki (1936)
14. Bentinck to Curzon, 5 September 1923 (FO 286/856; emphasis added)
15. Cheetham to Chamberlain, 11 December 1924, FO 371/9891
16. Cheetham to Chamberlain, 16 March 1925, FO 286/920
17. Annual Report of the British Legation, 1925, 26, FO 286/950; emphasis added
18. Ramsay to Henderson, 9 March 1931, FO 286/1105/204
19. The quotation is from the dispatch of the British ambassador, 25 January 1927 (FO 286/1009)
20. For a detailed account of the various forms the YEA took in the interwar period, see A. Dagas, The Hafyie: The State against Communism. Information from the Thessaloniki Security Apparatus (Athens 1995) [in Greek]
21. All the quotations are from the dispatch of M.C.O. Labrome to the Athens H.B.M. Legation, 22 April 1919 (FO 286/701)
22. Lord Granville, 25 March 1920, FO 286/744
23. For instance, one leading cadre of the Youth of Macedonia was a 'noted criminal [released] while doing sentence for several murders' (unsigned dispatch, 20 February 1922; FO 286/826)
24. Athens Local Committee of the KKE, Report for the Period 2 April-1 November 1926; Comintern Archives/Greek Section)
25. Ramsay to Henderson, 16 July 1931, FO 286/1104/165
26. A. Liakos, The Emergence of Youth Organizations: The Example of Thessaloniki (Athens 1988) [in Greek], 40-2
27. Y. Andrikopoulos, The Roots of Greek Fascism (Military and Politics) (Athens 1997), 7-24
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