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Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, 1910-1920 and 1928-1932, could be considered from many points of view the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910-1935. Yet the last book-length study discussing the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history has appeared in English more than fifty years ago. The aspiration of the present book is to fill this lacuna by bringing together the concerted research effort of twelve experts on Greek history and politics. The book draws on considerable new research that has appeared in Greek in the last quarter century, but does not confine the treatment of the subject in a purely Greek or even Balkan context. The entire project is oriented toward placing the study of Venizelos' leadership in the broad setting of twentieth-century politics and diplomacy. The complex and often dramatic trajectory of Venizelos' career from Cretan rebel to an admired European statesman is chartered out in a sequence of chapters that survey his meteoric rise and great achievements in Greek and European politics in the early decades of the twentieth century, amidst violent passions and tragic conflicts. Five further essays appraise in depth some critical aspects of his policies, while a final chapter offers some glimpses into a great statesman's personal and intellectual world. The book is based on extensive scholarship but it is eminently readable and it should appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century history, politics and biography, offering a vivid sense of the hopes and tragedies of Greek and European history in the age of the Great War and of the interwar crisis.

Prime ministers --- Venizelos, Eleutherios, --- Benizelos, Eleutherios, --- Venizelos, Eleftherios, --- Βενιζελος, Ελευθεριος, --- Greece --- Politics and government

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Nationalism --- Religion and politics --- Religious aspects --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Constantinople (Ecumenical patriarchate) --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- History. --- History.

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"The place of religion in the Enlightenment has been keenly debated for many years. Research has tended, however, to examine the interplay of religion and knowledge in Western countries, often ignoring the East. In "Enlightenment and religion in the Orthodox world" leading historians address this imbalance by exploring the intellectual and cultural challenges and changes that took place in Orthodox communities during the eighteenth century. The two main centres of Orthodoxy, the Greek-speaking world and the Russian Empire, are the focus of early chapters, with specialists analysing the integration of modern cosmology into Greek education, and the Greek alternative "enlightenment", the spiritual "Philokalia". Russian experts also explore the battle between the spiritual and the rational in the works of Voulgaris and Levshin. Smaller communities of Eastern Europe were faced with their own particular difficulties, analysed by contributors in the second part of the book. Governed by modernising princes who embraced Enlightenment ideals, Romanian society was fearful of the threat to its traditional beliefs, whilst Bulgarians were grappling in different ways with a new secular ideology. The particular case of the politically-divided Serbian world highlights how Dositej Obradovic's complex humanist views have been used for varying ideological purposes ever since. The final chapter examines the encroachment of the secular on the traditional in art, and the author reveals how Western styles and models of representation were infiltrating Orthodox art and artefacts. Through these innovative case studies this book deepens our understanding of how Christian and secular systems of knowledge interact in the Enlightenment and provides a rich insight into the challenges faced by leaders and communities in eighteenth-century Orthodox Europe. -- Quatrième de couverture

History of civilization --- Christian church history --- anno 1700-1799 --- Russian Federation --- Enlightenment --- Religion and civilization --- Siècle des lumières --- Religion et civilisation --- History --- Histoire --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Russia --- Greece --- Europe, Eastern --- Russie --- Grèce --- Europe de l'Est --- Church history --- Intellectual life --- Histoire religieuse --- Vie intellectuelle --- Orthodox Eastern literature --- Christianity and art --- Religion --- Siècle des lumières --- Grèce --- Enlightenment - Russia --- Christianity and art - Orthodox Eastern Church --- Enlightenment - Greece

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Enlightenment --- Nationalism --- Balkan Peninsula - Civilization - 18th century. --- Balkan Peninsula - Civilization - 19th century. --- Aufklärung --- Balkan Peninsula --- Balkan States --- Balkans --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- Civilization --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism

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Greece sits at the center of a geopolitical storm that threatens the stability of the European Union. To comprehend how this small country precipitated such an outsized crisis, it is necessary to understand how Greece developed into a nation in the first place. Enlightenment and Revolution identifies the ideological traditions that shaped a religious community of Greek-speaking people into a modern nation-state - albeit one in which antiliberal forces have exacted a high price. Paschalis Kitromilides takes in the vast sweep of the Greek Enlightenment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, assessing developments such as the translation of modern authors into Greek; the scientific revolution; the rediscovery of the civilization of classical Greece; and a powerful countermovement. He shows how Greek thinkers such as Voulgaris and Korais converged with currents of the European Enlightenment, and demonstrates how the Enlightenment's confrontation with Church-sanctioned ideologies shaped present-day Greece. When the nation-state emerged from a decade-long revolutionary struggle against the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, the dream of a free Greek polity was soon overshadowed by a romanticized nationalist and authoritarian vision. The failure to create a modern liberal state at that decisive moment is at the root of Greece's recent troubles.

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