The Franco Regime, 1936–1975The history of modern Spain is dominated by the figure of Francisco Franco, who presided over one of the longest authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Between 1936 and the end of the regime in 1975, Franco’s Spain passed through several distinct phases of political, institutional, and economic development, moving from the original semi-fascist regime of 1936–45 to become the Catholic corporatist “organic democracy” under the monarchy from 1945 to 1957. Distinguished historian Stanley G. Payne offers deep insight into the career of this complex and formidable figure and the enormous changes that shaped Spanish history during his regime. |
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Contents
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The Rebellion of the Eighteenth of July | 87 |
Franco and Yagiie in Seville August 1936 | 113 |
Republican troops during the first months of the Civil War | 121 |
Members of the International Brigades | 129 |
Franco on an inspection tour during the Civil War | 190 |
Franco addressing a large political audience in Madrid soon after | 223 |
The New State of 1939 | 231 |
Ramon Serrano Suner while Minister of the Interior 1940 | 259 |
Franco and Hitler at Hendaye October 23 1940 | 272 |
U S Ambassador Weddell and German Ambassador Eberhard von Stohrer | 280 |
Franco followed by Arrese entering a meeting of the FETs National Council | 289 |
The Regime at MidPassage 19501959 | 413 |
Nationalist artillery on the Somosierra front north of Madrid 1937 | 137 |
Nationalist infantry from one of the elite Tercio units on the assault | 148 |
A detachment of the Condor Legion on parade during the Civil War | 157 |
Franco saluting a crowd from the balcony of the Salamanca city hall 1937 | 172 |
Developmentalism and Decay 19591975 | 461 |
Continuity and Reform during the 1960s | 494 |
Selected Bibliography | 645 |
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Page 208 - During the Festival of Victory held in Madrid's Church of Santa Barbara on May 20, 1939, Franco offered the public prayer: "Lord God, in whose hands is right and all power, lend me thy assistance to lead this people to the full glory of empire, for thy glory and that of the Church.
Page 39 - Robert W. Kern, Red Years, Black Years: A Political History of Spanish Anarchism (Philadelphia, 1978); and Juan Gdmez Casas, Historia del anarco-sindicalismo espanol (Madrid, 1969).
Page 192 - original Falange," the "revolutionary Falange," or the "Camisas viejas," which is closest to us ideologically and whose aims, in our opinion, also offer Spain the best guaranty for the establishment of a new and strong national state which could be useful to us. We have, therefore, readily placed our experience at the disposal of the Falange, have shown our party organizations, social institutions, etc., in Germany to picked representatives of the Falange, and have advised them upon request. We have...
Page 147 - The news from Spain is not good. The Guadalajara offensive is put off indefinitely because of the spiritual vacillations of Franco's commanders and the preventive offensive of the Reds at Teruel . . . Franco has no idea of synthesis in war. His operations are those of a magnificent battalion commander. His objective is always ground, never the...
Page 102 - ... they would not settle for a reasonable compromise. Lines were too sharply drawn, and the chief conspirators had made solemn pledges which Mola refused to break at the last minute. Within less than ten hours, the left republican government veered sharply from an across-the-board compromise in favour of the insurgent right to an almost complete capitulation to the revolutionary left. This wild careening in itself reveals the confusion and irresolution of Azana and his colleagues of the middle-class...
Page 192 - That, however, was the limit: On request, the Falange receives from the German press office a wealth of material on German conditions and the organization, etc., of the NSDAP. There is no importunate propaganda or "intervention in the internal affairs
Page 117 - Personally I found Franco shrewd but disconcertingly unimpressive. I talked with him first when he was still slender and later after he had gone to fat. A small man, he is muscular; but his hand is soft as a woman's, and in both instances I found it damp with perspiration. Excessively shy as he fences to understand a caller, his voice is shrill and pitched on a high note which is slightly disturbing since he speaks quietly, almost in a whisper.
Page 179 - ... authoritarian, nonmonarchical state. This created an enormous, seemingly insuperable, obstacle to their plans for a restoration. They launched an extensive whispering campaign against Franco's evil genius, the cunadisimo. In his ABC interview of July 19, Franco had already rolled out what was to become his standard line for monarchists: If the time for a Restoration should arrive, the new Monarchy would of course have to be very different from the one which fell on April 14, 1931 : different...
Page 182 - All possible reforms within the capacity of the nation's economy. We balk at nothing that the country's economy can stand." ALLEN: "Agrarian reform?" FRANCO: "No use in giving poor land to poor peasants. It is not land alone that counts, but money to work it. Another twenty-five years will see the natural break-up of the big estates into small properties and the creation of a bourgeois peasantry.
Page 72 - ... back, but not one of them has the courage to do it. They're afraid that he might turn his head and '• see them just when they have taken aim at him." "But surely it is the same story with Millan Astray." "Oh, no. One couldn't take a pot-shot at Millan Astray, he takes too good care of himself. But it wouldn't be difficult to fire at Franco. He takes the lead in an advance, and — well, if somebody's got guts, you just have to admit it. I've seen him walk upright in front of all the others,...
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| Title | The Franco Regime, 1936–1975 |
| Author | Stanley G. Payne |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0299110702, 9780299110703 |
| Length | 677 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Spain & Portugal History / General |
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