Distorted Path: 1960–1974

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos was born in Athens in 1972. He is Professor of Contemporary Political History at the University of the Peloponnese and teaches in the MSc program “Public Administration and Local Government.” He also teaches at the Hellenic Open University as a Course Coordinator. He serves as Chair of the Board of the General State Archives and Vice-Chair of the Observatory on the Teaching of History of the Council of Europe. He is the Editorial Secretary of Nea Estia and has been a regular columnist for the newspapers Kathimerini, Lifo, Proto Thema, and currently for Athens Voice. He is a member of the Moraitis School Study Society and the Cyprus Society of Historical Studies. He has authored Phases and Contradictions of the Greek State in the 20th Century, 1910–2001 (Estia, 2019) and From the “Uncompromising” to the “Right-Left Divide”: Political and Social Divisions in the “Long” 1960s (Kathimerini, 2019). He has published over 80 scholarly works and has edited nine collective volumes, including the English-language Political and Cultural Aspects of Greek Exoticism, co-edited with P. Panayiotopoulos (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Evanthis Chatzivasileiou was born in 1966 in Doxato, Drama. He graduated from the Department of Law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1987 and received an MA and PhD in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He currently serves as Professor of Postwar World History at the Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and as Secretary General of the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy. His publications include Greece and the Cold War: Frontline State, 1952–1967 (Routledge, 2006), Greek Liberalism: The Radical Current, 1932–1979 (Patakis, 2010), NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Analysis and Reporting, 1951–1969 (Routledge, 2014), and, as co-editor with Antonis Klapsis, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, and Efi Pentaliou, The Greek Junta and the International System: A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967–1974 (Routledge, 2020).