Miniatures Episode 5: Why Leisure Is Not Just Having Fun - Youth, Politics & Sexuality with Dr Nikos Papadogiannis

You’ve heard of ‘Americanisation’, but what about ‘Sovietism’? Dr Nikos Papadogiannis (University of Sterling, formerly Bangor University) describes youth culture, leisure, politics, and sexuality in Cold War Greece in the years after the fall of the Greek military dictatorship in 1974. This podcast was originally published on 21st October 2020 as part of the ERC research project ‘Dictatorship as experience: A comparative history of everyday life and the ‘lived experience’ of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe (1922-1975)’ led by Prof. Kate Ferris at the University of St Andrews. To learn more about the wider project, visit: ⁠arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/everyday-dictatorship/⁠ Hosted by: Dr Huw Halstead Produced by: Dr Huw Halstead Music by: Oi Palaiológoi (Violin - Roddy Beaton, Outi - David Hughes)