The critical decades of the 1940s and 1950s

The publication consists of announcements submitted to the scientific Conference organized by the PROMETHEUS Research Institute on 9 and 10 September 2016 under the title: The critical decades of the 1940s and 1950s: the evolution and shaping of relations between the two communities. The 1940s and 1950s in Cyprus were eventful and marked the ethnic, political and social polarization in Cyprus as well as the shaping of the country's political and party system. At the same time, they created situations that brought Cyprus to the brink of intra-communal and inter-communal civil war. The absence of relevant historiographical production has resulted in the maintenance of "silence" on many aspects of what happened. This publication attempts to analyze the course of relations between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, as well as within each community, as they are influenced and changed during a period of intense social and political turmoil.

The publication is written by Giorgos Margaritis - Building the post-colonial society: unity and division, Michalis N. Michail Communities, order and uprisings in Ottoman Cyprus, Alexis Alekou - Aspects of the Greek civil war in Cyprus, 1946-1949, Michalis Michail - violence within the Greek Cypriot community in the 1950s, Alexis Antoniou - Economics and politics: The joint strike of the miners of the KME (1948), Mary Antoniou - Strike mobilizations in the 1940s: from the perspective of the Press, Katerina Ilia - Relations between the popular strata of the two communities: The example of the Collectives, Yannos Katsouridis - The national question in Cyprus, the Left and the Turkish Cypriots, Nikos Moudouros - The political and economic formation of the Turkish Cypriot nationalist elite, Thekla Kyritsi - The formation of the women's labor movement in Cyprus.