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From: Florian Bieber <bieberf@gmx.net>
Subject: New Book: The Balkan Exchange of Minorities and its Impact on
Greece

New publication
(If you wish to request a course adoption copy of this book, please
write
to Michael Dwyer -- hurst@atlas.co.uk -- stating the name of the course
and
the number of students enrolled.)


THE BALKAN EXCHANGE OF MINORITIES AND
ITS IMPACT ON GREECE
DIMITRI PENTZOPOULOS

The defeat of the Greek army in Asia Minor in August 1922, leading to
what
the Greeks call the Asia Minor Catastrophe, was a turning point in the
life
of the Greek nation. It brought to an abrupt end the period of
expansionary
foreign policy summed up in the "Great Idea" of the incorporation of the

"unredeemed" Greek communities within the new kingdom of Greece. It led
to
the establishment of state frontiers which,with the addition of the
Dodecanese after the Second World War, have lasted until the present
day.
And it led directly to the flight of the Greek refugees from Asia Minor,

the compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey, and
the
resettlement in Greece of the displaced refugee populations amounting to

some 1,300,000 people, with profound human, social, political and
economic
consequences. This is the great theme of Dimitri Pentzopoulos's book,
The
Balkan Exchange of Minorities and its Impact on Greece, which now makes
a
reappearance four decades after its original publication.
Although the importance of these events in the life of the Greek nation
was
obvious from the start, it took many years for their effects to work
themselves through, and for Greek historians and social scientists to
confront them in their complexity. Pentzopoulos was one of the first to
do
so. His book sets out the historical background and the facts of the
exchange and refugee settlement, and with admirable balance analyses the

ethnological, economic, political, social and cultural impact. Making
good
use of League of Nations documents and other contemporary sources, he
opens
up and casts light upon  all the major themes: the consolidation of
Greece's population, the securing of Macedonia, agricultural reform and
development, the effects on Greek politics, the tensions between
refugees
and the host population, the development and maintenance of a specific
refugee mentality, and the effects on Greek society and culture. The
book
is an essential reference work for the study of modern Greece, and
complements a historical study of the 1922 Catastrophe, Ionian Vision
(Hurst, [1973] 1998) by Michael Llewellyn Smith, who contributes a new
preface to this volume.

Contents: The origins of the Greek Refugee Probelm-The  Lausanne
Conference
and the Exchange of Populations Conventions-The Settlement of Refugees,
The
International Aspect-The Settlement of Refugees, The Internal Aspect-The

Ethnological Impact-The Economic Impact-The Political Impact-The Social
and
Cultural Impact-The Refugee Problem
Today-Conclusions-Appendices-Bibliography-Index

Dimitri Pentzopoulos, born in 1932, was educated at Athens and Princeton

Universities, the latter on a Fulbright Scholarship. After serving in
the
Greek diplomatic service in Istanbul, Boston,and Bern, he rose to the
position of Minister Plenipotentiary in the Foreign Ministry before his
early death in 1982.