Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State

This book simultaneously tells a story—or rather, stories—and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of Greek dissidents were detained and tortured in prisons, places of exile, and concentration camps. They were sometimes held for decades, in subhuman conditions of toil and deprivation.

The history is that of how the Greek Left was constituted by the Greek state as a zone of danger. Legislati...