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Note to the Reader
eign observers of the Revolution discussed by P. Vallianos in this volume, cannot
be easily repeated. Instead, they have been succeeded by large- scale collective
proj ects such as the twelfth volume of the History of the Greek Nation (1975) or
the third volume of the History of Modern Hellenism (2003), both of which have
been impor tant sources for our proj ect.
We have called our work a dictionary in order to underline its character as
a rec ord of ongoing exploration that can be revisited and enriched in future
reincarnations. Of the two models available to us, both generated at the bicentennial
of the French Revolution, the Dictionnaire Critique by François Furet
and Mona Ozouf and the Dictionnaire historique by Albert Soboul, we chose
to follow the former in order to signal our intentions to be selective rather than
exhaustive and to stimulate critical reflection on the topics chosen for inclusion.
The authors of individual essays were asked to identify the conventional
understanding of their par tic u lar subjects and either confirm or revise that understanding
taking into account recent research and debates. Readers are
therefore warned that they will not find every thing pertaining to the Greek Revolution,
but they should use the topics covered as a foundation and entry into
the event.
We pre sent The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary in the hope that it
will fulfill its promise of both reliable information on a broad range of topics
and a critical revisiting, rethinking, and understanding that remains, we trust,
the primary purpose served by historical knowledge.