Πολιτικές και στρατιωτικές επαναστατικές προετοιμασίες στη διετία 1876-1878

Abstract

This study concentrates on the political and military aspects of the
Greek revolutionary preparations of 1876-8 that led to armed insurrections
in Thessaly, Epirus, Macedonia, and Crete in the spring of 1878. On the basis
of new material from unpublished archives of revolutionary committees,
an attempt is made to reconstruct the organizational structure of these committees
both in the Greek Kingdom and in the Ottoman provinces; to analyze
their relationship with the Government; to investigate their various
functions - indoctrination, recruitment, financing, procuring of armaments,
operational planning; and to assess their overall role in the conduct
of the insurrections. At the same time, it assesses the Government’s position
and involvement in the insurrectionary movements.
An earlier English version of this study, under the title ‘Greek Insurrectionary
Preparations: 1876-1878’, appeared in the proceedings of a conference
held in Varna, Bulgaria, on 20-23 September 1983, published in the
series War and Society in East Central Europe, vol. XVII, Insurrections,
Wars, and the Eastern Crisis in the 1870s, edited by Béla Kiraly, Brooklyn
College Press (distributed by Columbia University Press) (New York, 1985),
pp.181-98.