Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory (Book)
Title: Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory
Author: Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten
Abstract: Bookmark and Share Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten 352 pages | 11 halftones, 4 maps | 6 x 9 | © 2012 Cloth $80.00 ISBN: 9780226135984 Published November 2011 Paper $25.00 ISBN: 9780226135991 Published November 2011 E-book $7.00 to $25.00 About E-books ISBN: 9780226136004 Published October 2011 At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries in the national government placed the rest in children’s homes elsewhere in Greece. A point of contention during the Cold War, this controversial episode continues to fuel tensions between Greeks and Macedonians and within Greek society itself. Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten present here for the first time a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs and the lives of the children they forever transformed.
Year: 2012
Secondary URL: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo12274715.html
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Multi-author monograph

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