Abstract

This article focuses on the narrative of the 1923 Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations with a focus on the role of a prominent figure in the making of this narrative, namely, Stephen Pericles Ladas. His 89-year-old book is still considered the standard text on the event and is unsurpassed in terms of its coverage of facts and figures. The article contextualizes and briefly examines this highly influential text on the Exchange of Minorities with a view to showing how it came to constitute the dominant narrative of the Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations. It is argued that Ladas appropriated the findings and arguments about this event from the publications of his contemporaneous Greek intellectuals and then framed them within the parlance of international law to craft a narrative favorable to the nation-state and the League of Nations. In the absence of any challenging opinions and publications, this narrative, which was largely inattentive to the human and moral consequences of the event, became the standard account of the Greco-Turkish case to be widely quoted by the international political and scholarly circles preoccupied with the question of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities during the interwar period and after.

摘要

本文重点讲述 1923 年希腊-土耳其人口交换的故事，重点关注一位杰出人物在制作该故事中的作用，即斯蒂芬·伯里克利·拉达斯。他拥有 89 年历史的书仍然被认为是该事件的标准文本，并且在其对事实和数据的报道方面是无与伦比的。本文将这个关于少数民族交换的极具影响力的文本置于背景中并简要考察，以期展示它是如何构成希腊-土耳其人口交换的主要叙述的。有人认为，拉达斯从他同时代的希腊知识分子的出版物中挪用了关于这一事件的调查结果和论点，然后将它们置于国际法的术语范围内，以制定有利于民族国家和国际联盟的叙述。