The Great Idea is Dead, Long Live the Great Ideas

IF 0.2 Q2 HISTORY East Central Europe Pub Date : 2021-11-26 DOI:10.30965/18763308-48020007
Vassilios A. Bogiatzis
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The “Asia Minor Catastrophe” cast its heavy shadow over Greek interwar era developments in two fundamental ways: first, there was the terror of the ideological void after the bankruptcy of the Hellenic “Great Idea” due to the military defeat in Asia Minor; and second, the physical arrival in Greece of an almost 1,500,000 refugee population after their expulsion from Turkey. This paper argues that against this background, the issues of national reconstruction and a new cultural orientation for the Greek nation were strongly connected. Moreover, it argues that various projects and discourses emerged in search of the new Great Ideas that would successfully replace the irrevocably lost one. They had as a common denominator the “modernist ethos” of a “new beginning” which was necessary for the nation’s and society’s regeneration to be achieved. Thus, in exploring these projects, it attempts to identify their convergences, their mutual exclusions, as well as their cultural, ideological and political imprints.
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伟大的思想已死,伟大的思想万岁
“小亚细亚大灾难”从两个方面给希腊两次世界大战时期的发展蒙上了沉重的阴影:一是希腊“伟大构想”因小亚细亚军事失败而破产后的意识形态空虚的恐怖;第二,近1500000名难民在被土耳其驱逐后实际抵达希腊。本文认为,在这种背景下,希腊民族的国家重建问题与新的文化取向有着密切的联系。此外,它还认为,各种各样的项目和话语都是为了寻找新的伟大思想而出现的,这些思想将成功地取代不可逆转的失落思想。他们的共同点是“新开端”的“现代主义精神”,这是实现国家和社会复兴所必需的。因此,在探索这些项目时,它试图确定它们的趋同、相互排斥以及它们的文化、意识形态和政治印记。
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