Name: America, Russia, and the Birth of Modern Greece
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Author: Dimitris Michalopoulos
ISBN: 9781680539424

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America, Russia, and the Birth of Modern Greece

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Academica Pr

Author

Dimitris Michalopoulos

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781680539424

Synopsis "America, Russia, and the Birth of Modern Greece"

In 1806 an anonymous Greek book called for a republican government, patterned upon that of the young United States, to be established in Greece, then long the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The Americanization of Greece presupposed independence. The book's author, Count John Capo d'Istria, was carried away by his own version of the American Dream, but was also in touch with another inspirational power, Russia, which made him its foreign minister despite his attraction to the ideas of revolutionaries, Russia's Decembrists, who wanted democratic government in their country. Capo d'Istria was only identified as the early author of calls for a Greek Republic in the 2010s. In this revelatory new book, distinguished Greek historian Dimitris Michalopoulos follows his career and that of Alexander Ypsilantis, a Greek who became a general of the Russian army and tried to attract Russia's interest in a democratic revolution for Greece.