The Franco regime, 1936-1975

University of Wisconsin Press

1987

xvii, 677 p.

9780299110703

Origins --The Politics of Modern Spain --An Authoritarian Alternative: The Primo de Rivera Dictatorship --The Second Republic --The Nationalist Opposition --Franco and the Military --The Civil War, 1936-1939 --The Rebellion of the Eighteenth of July --Establishment of the Franco Dictatorship --The Nationalist War Effort --Franco's Wartime Government --Civil War as Crusade --The Repression --The Dictadura, 1939-1959 --Semi-Fascism: The New State of 1939 --The "German Phase," 1940-1942 --From Nonbelligerance to Neutrality, 1942-1945 --Ostracism and Realignment, 1945-1950 --Social and Economic Policy in the 1940s --Complacent Dictator --The Regime at Mid-Passage, 1950-1959 --Developmentalism and Decay, 1959-1975 --The Desarrollo --Continuity and Reform during the 1960s --Twilight of the Regime, 1969-1973 --The Death of Franco --The Franco Regime in Perspective.

The 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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