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Identifier 000425020
Title Το congress for cultural freedom (CCF) και η δραστηριότητά του στην Ελλάδα, 1950-1967 : πολιτιστικός ψυχρός πόλεμος και αντικομμουνισμός
Alternative Title The congress for cultural freedom (CCF) and it's activity in Greece, 1950-1967 : cultural cold war and anticommunism
Author Μπουρνάζος, Στρατής
Thesis advisor Χατζηϊωσήφ Χρήστος
Reviewer Λούκος Χρήστος
Αβδελά Έφη
Ματθιόπουλος Ευγένιος
Ματάλας Παρασκευάς
Παπαδημητρίου Δέσποινα
Βόγλης Πολυμέρης
Abstract The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF, 1950-1967) is an organization set up by top Western intellectuals and artists, with the CIA’s secret support and funding, during the Cold War’s competition between the two superpowers. The purpose of the CCF was to promote a Western (European-American) culture, with an emphasis on Western values (liberal democracy, freedom of speech, civil rights, free market etc.), which would challenge the hegemony of the Communist Left and USSR in the fields of intellectuals and arts. It has been active in more than 30 countries, organized conferences and exhibitions, and published high-prestige journals (Der Monat, Preuves, Encounter, Tempo Presente, etc.). This thesis studies the CCF’s activity in Greece, using as its main source the CCF archive at the Regenstein Library in Chicago. The four main thematic axes are: a) detailed description of the CCF’s activity in Greece, b) monitoring of this activity in relation to CCF’s overall profile and international activity, as centrally shaped, decided and developed, c) the relationship between the activity of CCF and US initiatives in Greece, in the context of the Cultural Cold War, d) the study of the Greeks, mainly of the intellectuals, associated with the CCF, as well as the study of the CCF’s central persons that were preoccupied with Greece. The thesis discusses the reasons why CCF’s activity in Greece was low key and left no distinctive mark. The main reasons identified, besides weaknesses related to persons, are: a) the rise of anti-Americanism (political and cultural) in Greece since the mid-1950s, b) the weakness of the anti-communist Left in Greece, and of the non-communist Left in general, as well as the cooperation of various socialist groups with EDA (United Democratic Left, the legal political represantation of the Communist Party of Greece, which was outlawed) c) the rupture of liberal intellectuals and artists with the space of nationalism and their osmosis –despite the existing rivalries– with the space of the Left, d) the dominance, of the “polemic anti-communism” of the Civil War, in the post-civil war Greek landscape, which presents communism as a devil, radically different from the CCF’s liberal anti-communism, which could never gain ground in Greece.
Language Greek
Subject Anticommunism
Cold ar
Congress for cultural freedom (CCF)
Cultural cold
Greek anticommunism
Greek intellectuals
Liberal anticommunism
Liberla intellectuals
Έλληνες διανοούμενοι
Διεθνής αντικομμουνισμός
Ελληνικός αντικομμουνισμός
Πολιτιστικός ψυχρός πόλεμος
Φιλελεύθεροι διανοούμενοι
Φιλελεύθερος αντικομμουνισμός
Ψυχρός πόλεμος
Issue date 2019
Collection   School/Department--School of Philosophy--Department of History and Archaeology--Doctoral theses
  Type of Work--Doctoral theses
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