ABSTRACT
The Cold War in Greece was a period of major sociopolitical changes. After six years of civil war, an illiberal parliamentary political process in the 1950s, seven years of military rule and the abolition of the monarchy, a successful transition to democracy began only in 1974, followed by accession into the European Economic Community. Unlike the Communist dictatorships in its northern Balkan neighbors, under their long and comparatively predictable and unchallenged leadership, Greece experienced a fair amount of political instability and social unrest before it reached a path toward relative political stability and social peace before the end of the Cold War.
