I myself know next to nothing about it, but I do know that a century later it still causes much bitterness between Greeks and Turks. I had a political science professor at UCM who was from Greece, Thessaloniki region, and he is one of the most progressive minded people I have ever met and yet he still has a severe anti Turkish bias a century on. This revolution is in part why Turkey and Greece are the only two NATO members to have ever fought while active members of the alliance.
Oh and Blondie, you mention elites, have you ever noticed that by and large revolutions are led by the elites while revolts are led by the poor and enslaved? Just something to think about. Our so called revolution was led by the Virginia planter aristocracy and New England, New York, and Pennsylvania mercantile and banking elites. The Confederacy were planter elites. The French revolution was led by men loaded with money but no say in the French autocracy. The English revolution was led by parliamentarians and landed gentry. The Russian revolution? It wasn't your poor peasantry and workers who organized it, it was the sons of landowners, lawyers, even Stalin's propaganda is iust that as his family was wealthy enough to pay his way to Seminary. Anyways, my point is that revolutions seem to be led by the elites who feel deprived of political power, was this the same in the Greek Revolution?
