THANASIS D. SFIKAS
Personal Information - Studies – Career
Place and date of Birth: Athens, 15 October 1963
Academic Posts Held:
2013 - : Associate Professor of International and Greek History of the 20th Century,
Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2002-2013: Assistant professor of Contemporary Greek History, Department of
History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece
1998-2002: Senior Lecturer in European History, Department of History, University of
Central Lancashire, UK
1993-1998: Lecturer in European History, Department of Politics and European
Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Degrees:
1985: ΒΑ in English Studies, Department of English Studies, The University of Athens
1987: MA in Historical Research, Department of History, Lancaster University
1991: PhD in History, Department of History, Lancaster University
Main Publications
Books
-The British Labour Government and the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949: The Imperialism
of «Non-Intervention» (Keele 1994), Greek edition, Athens 1997.
-Christopher Williams and Thanasis D. Sfikas (eds), Ethnicity and Nationalism in the
CIS and the Baltic States, Aldershot 1999.
-Thanasis D. Sfikas and Christopher Williams (eds), Ethnicity and Nationalism in
Eastern Europe and the Balkans Aldershot 1999.
-[in Greek] Greece and the Spanish Civil War: Ideology, Economy, Diplomacy, Athens:
2000.
-[in Greek] War and Peace in the Strategy of the Greek Communist Party, 1945-1949
(Athens: Filistor, 2001), 138 pp.
-Philip Carabott and Thanasis D. Sfikas (eds), The Greek Civil War: Essays on a Conflict
of Exceptionalism and Silences, London, 2004.
-[in Greek] “Lame Horse”: The International Setting of the Greek Crisis, 1941-1949,
Athens 2007.
-[in Greek] Konstantina Bada and Thanasis D. Sfikas (eds), Occupation, Resistance,
Civil War: Aitoloakarnania in 1940-1950, Athens 2010).
-Thanasis D. Sfikas (eds), The Marshall Plan: Europe Reconstructed and Divided,
Athens 2011.
Articles
-“‘The people at the top can do these things which others can’t do’: Winston
Churchill and the Greeks, 1940-1945”, Journal of Contemporary History, 26 (2)
(1991), 307-332.
-“Attlee, Bevin and ‘a very lame horse’: the dispute over Greece and the Middle East,
December 1946 - January 1947”, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, 18 (2) (1992), 6996.
-“Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union in the United Nations Commission
of Investigation in Greece, January - May 1947”, Contemporary European History, 2
(3) (1993), 243-263.
-“Greek Attitudes to the Spanish Civil War”, Κάμπος: Cambridge Papers in Modern
Greek, 4 (1996), 105-132.
-«The Balkans and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949», Synthesis: Review of
Modern Greek Studies, 1 (2) (1996), 2-13.
-“Spanish Echoes in Greece, 1946-1949: The Myth of the Participation of an
‘International Brigade’ in the Greek Civil War”, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 15
(1) (1997), 87-101.
-“Towards a Regional Study of the Origins of the Cold War in Southeastern Europe:
British and Soviet Policies in the Balkans, 1945-1949”, Journal of Modern Greek
Studies, 17 (2) (1999), 209-227.
-“A Tale of Parallel Lives: The Second Greek Republic and the Second Spanish
Republic, 1924-1936”, European History Quarterly, 29, (2) (1999), 217-250.
-“War and Peace in the Strategy of the Communist Party of Greece, 1945-1949”,
Journal of Cold War Studies, 3 (3) (2001), 5-30.
-“The Greek Civil War”, στο Melvyn P. Leffler και David S. Painter (επιμ.), Origins of
the Cold War: An International History, London-N.York 2005, 134-152.
-[with Anna Machaira], “Does the Iliad need an Agamemnon version? History,
Politics and the Greek 1940s”, Ιστορείν, 11 (2011), 80-98.
-“‘An almost unique isle in the sea of democratic Europe’: Greek Communists’
Perceptions of International Reality, 1944-1949”, Cold War History, 14 (1) (2014), 121.
Conferences
-‘Ethnicity and Nationalism in the new Europe’, University of Central Lancashire, UK,
September 1995.
-‘Domestic and International Aspects of the Greek Civil War’, King’s College, London,
April 1999.
-‘The Marshall Plan: The Reconstruction and Division of Europe’, University of
Ioannina (Greece), November 2007.
Research interests -Teaching courses
The Cold War, 20 -Century International History, Historiography
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