The Mechanism of Catastrophe
Subtitle: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul
Publisher: Greekworks.Com Inc
Published: May 2, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 659
ISBN-13: 9780974766034
Description: "On the night of September 6-7, 1955, the Greek community of Istanbul was violently struck throughout the expanse of Turkey's most important metropolis. Within hours, businesses, homes, and even the churches of the Greeks were in ruins, with the British press calculating the damage at $100 million. It was the beginning of the end for the ethnic descendants of the city's founders, who had settled this eastern tip of Europe two and a half millennia earlier. This vicious and unprovoked attack quickly became entangled in the Cold War politics of the time, and the truth of it was just as quickly suppressed. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the mass destruction, Speros Vryonis has painstakingly reconstructed the events of that night in his magisterial work, The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul. . . ."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations; title: Prefatory Dedication; title: Acknowledgements; label: Prologue
title: A Personal Chronicle; label: Introduction
title: The Greeks of Istanbul on the Eve of September 6, 1955; label: Chapter One
title: Background and Institutions of the Pogrom; label: Chapter Two
title: The Pogrom; label: Chapter Three
title: Moral and Material Damages, and the Economics and Politics of Compensation; label: Chapter Four
title: From Papagos to Karamanles (The Economics and Politics of Compensation Continued); label: Chapter Five
title: The Attack on the Greek Orthodox Church; label: Chapter Six
title: Crime and Punishment, and the Trial of the Menderes Government; title: Conclusions; title: Appendixes; title: Bibliography; title: Index