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In The Unrepentant Vassos Georghiou recounts the sufferings of Greek men and women of all walks of life and political persuasions who were deported in 1964 to a desert island following a coup d’état engineered by the CIA that installed a repressive military junta. The prisoners responded variously to the psychological and physical pressures; some yielded and signed loyalty oaths; most, however, like Georghiou, resisted courageously, armed with a sense of their personal dignity and loyal to the ideals of their years of struggle against repression and foreign invasions and interventions.
Until the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and despite his disillusionment with the domestic and international leadership of the Communist movement and his expulsion from the Communist Party, Vassos Georghiou retained his faith in the Soviet Union as the model for the world of the future. In this book Arthur D. Kahn repeatedly expresses disagreement with Georghiou’s views, and discussions between them add a further level of interest.
About the Author
Born in 1908 of illiterate parents, Vassos Georghiou graduated from Athens University and embarked upon a long career as a journalist and as the author of numerous books and articles. He suffered more than twenty years of imprisonment, deportation and exile for participating as Communist in struggles against repressive regimes and the German occupiers during World War II and in the civil war of 1947.
A retired Classics professor, Arthur D. Kahn is the author of several books, including Experiment in Occupation: Witness to the Turnabout, Anti-Nazi to Cold War, The Education of Julius Caesar, and the autobiographical The Kid Didn’t Whimper. A member of the Old Left, he served as a director during Henry Wallace’s 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign and ran for Congress against FDR, Jr. in 1952. He was active in peace organizations and participated in civil rights struggles and in the anti-Vietnam war movement. |
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Features
- Author: Vassos Georghiou
- Format: Paperback
- Published: May 2005
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