State control over Greece’s agricultural institutions increased during Metaxas’s authoritarian regime (1936–41). Analysing such state control allows us to address, in the Greek context, two questions with regard to fascist agrarian regimes. First, considering the trajectory of agricultural policy before the emergence of these regimes, how much of what they did was new, and how much was not? Second, how did the cadres of agricultural specialists participate in, or at least accommodate, the new regimes? Our research shows that Metaxas received support from the agronomists who had been active in Greece under previous liberal administrations. Such support did not take the form of laudatory statements or ideology-driven activism. It was rather a discreet acceptance of the new circumstances, combined with defection from one’s previous political camp. Metaxas’s dictatorship inherited most traits that made it a fascist agricultural regime from previous liberal administrations.

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第一个农民和他的同伴：国家对梅塔克萨斯州下的希腊农业机构的控制

在梅塔克萨斯独裁政权（1936-41 年）期间，国家对希腊农业机构的控制有所增加。分析这种国家控制使我们能够在希腊语境中解决与法西斯农业制度有关的两个问题。首先，考虑到这些政权出现之前的农业政策轨迹，他们所做的有多少是新的，又有多少不是？第二，农业专家干部如何参与或至少适应新政权？我们的研究表明，Metaxas 得到了在前自由政府时期活跃于希腊的农艺师的支持。这种支持没有采取赞美声明或意识形态驱动的激进主义的形式。这是对新情况的谨慎接受，同时还背叛了以前的政治阵营。