Ilios Yannakakis
Ilios Yannakakis , born in 1931 with the Cairo, is a historian, political economist and intellectual French.
Biography
Registered with the French college of Cairo, it obtains its baccalaureat there before engaging thereafter in the rows of the Greek Communist party (PCG). It takes part, consequently, with the civil war (1946-1949) which makes rage in the country between the Monarchiste S defenders of the capacity lately elected and the Communistes. Initially starting from Paris, then in Eastern Europe, in Prague and Budapest primarily, it is charged by the PCG with training the young Greeks exiled in Czechoslovakia. It will be however victim of a purification of the Communist parties at the time of the countryside against the Cosmopolitisme and is sent in Rééducation.After the death of Stalin, in 1953, it continues its studies of history and Romance literature at the university of Olomouc (Tchéquie). Assisting Master, in 1962, it is then named professor with the Université of Prague. He is engaged in engagements having milked with the defense of freedom and the human rights. Wishing an opening of the Czechoslovakian Communist party, it is one of the organizers of the Printemps of Prague which will open the crisis of the PCT. The entry of the Soviet tanks in Prague, in 1968, obliges it to leave the country. In August 1968, he emigrates in Paris where he teaches the contemporary international relations at the University of Lille.
Specialist in the History of Communism and the Central European country and Eastern, it publishes many articles and works on the subject.
Partisan of the American intervention in Iraq, in March 2003, it approached the Cercle of the Oratory, the Atlantis Institute, based in Brussels, and becomes member of the editorial board of the review Brave New World . He particularly studied the democratic transitional period in Iraq. He went to the site with Pierre Rigoulot and published an account of voyage.
A biographical novel of its life was published in Red Matin of Chantal Delsol.