Abstract
Alecou aims to examine the reasons and consequences of the belayed development of far-right in Cyprus in the 1940s, focusing on the appearance and evolution of the “X” organization. While the effects of nationalism on the political life in Cyprus have been influential throughout its contemporary history, nationalism produced a permanent division among the society of the Greek Cypriot community. The analysis focuses on the evolution and radicalization of extreme right groups in Greece and then attention switches to the relation between the Greek and Cypriot nationalists, and especially the influence of the Greeks on the Greek Cypriots during the Greek civil war.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Conference on Extreme right in Cyprus, Turkey and Greece on 1 November 2014 (University of Cyprus) under the title “Far-right in Greece and Cyprus: Evolution and radicalization in the 1940s”.
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Alecou, A. (2018). Imported Nationalism: The Appearance and Evolution of “X” Organization in Cyprus. In: Kyritsi, T., Christofis, N. (eds) Cypriot Nationalisms in Context. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97804-8_7
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