Description
The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in Spain (1936/1939-1975/1978) was a modern form of authoritarianism, with a strong totalitarian period, like many other dictatorships of the time. Francoism occupies a place in history alongside other different dictatorships of its age, and a comparative analysis might prove to be a powerful tool in order to understand how, in the middle of the 20th century, such a repressive and authoritarian form of political control emerged.
One of the most forgotten fascisms, which at the same time was influenced by and influenced other dictatorships, there are many aspects of the transnational connections of Francoism that remain under-researched. Following this methodology, thus, an attempt is made to situate Francoism in the context of the other dictatorships of the time, in an attempt to transcend explanations centered on the nation. The chapters cover groundbreaking topics such as the Spanish Civil War as one of the first total wars or Spanish fascism in context as one of the main European totalitarianisms.
The chapters always have more than one dimension: they speak of interrelation, entanglement, collaboration and diffusion, and, in general, put the different dictatorships (essentially: Francoism, diverse Fascisms and Communism) in context and comparison.
Table of Contents
Interacting Francoism: A tale of 20th-century dictatorships
José M. Faraldo and Gutmaro Gómez Bravo
Part I - Systems
1. An analytical characterization of totalitarian language: The case of Francoism in context
Gonzalo Lorenzo López
2. The birth of total war in terms of air defence: The meaning of the Spanish Civil War
Diego Martínez
3. Undesirable foreigners in democracy and dictatorship: Comparing the changing status of Spanish exiles in France (1936–1945)
Jonay Pérez
Part II - Interacting Surveillance
4. Investigation, surveillance and control: Spain in the era of total intelligence and fascist Europe (1914–1939)
Carlos Piriz
5. Constructing modern surveillance: Military intelligence in the punitive system of early Francoism
Gutmaro Gómez Bravo
6. Varguism and Francoism in connection: The “policing” of diplomacy (1936–1939)
Mariana Cardoso dos Santos Ribeiro
Part III - (Inter)national Interactions
7. Women’s organizations, gender equality and dictatorships: Celebrating International Women’s Year (1975) in Poland and Spain
Natalia J. Jarska
8. Republican crimes, Soviet origins? Francoist mythology and violence in the Russian and Spanish revolutions
Fernando Jiménez Herrera
9. Who’s speaking? Eastern European exile in Franco’s Spain and the Cold War propaganda battle
Sarah Lemmen
Part IV - Interacting Everyday Life
10. Heroic models in daily life: Soviet children and the Spanish Civil War
Olga Ilyukha
11. The supply question in Total War: Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
Ainhoa Campos
12. “A pyre of ration cards”: Practices of everyday resistance during Francoism in context
Olga Román Ruiz
