Ioannis Metaxás et le religieux (1936-1941) : expérience historique et débats actuels en Grèce
The Ioannis Metaxas’ regime, from August 1936 to January 1941, is most often brought closer to the authoritarian and paternalistic model of Salazar’s Portugal—or Franco’s Spain—than to fascism or nazism stricly speaking. This article focuses on a critical aspect of the “4th August Regime”: its relat...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d'Études Balkaniques
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Balkaniques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ceb/5120 |
| Summary: | The Ioannis Metaxas’ regime, from August 1936 to January 1941, is most often brought closer to the authoritarian and paternalistic model of Salazar’s Portugal—or Franco’s Spain—than to fascism or nazism stricly speaking. This article focuses on a critical aspect of the “4th August Regime”: its relationships with religion. The enhancement of christianism by the political authority, which is an often noticed point, does not in fact represent a real discontinuity with respect to earlier administrations. The religious tolerance of the governement, its peculiar management of religious minorities—in the European context of the late 1930s—are examined in all their ambiguities. The look taken at this 20th century’s regime crystallizes still current debates and historiographical tensions in Greece, all the more sensitive as they meet the issue of the State and Greek population’s attitude faced with the Shoah. |
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| ISSN: | 0290-7402 2261-4184 |