Search results for ""Author Miguel Angel Ruiz Carnicer""
Una juventud en tiempo de dictadura Prxima aparicin
Más de trece mil jóvenes universitarios pasaron los meses de verano en campos de trabajo repartidos por toda España durante las décadas de los cincuenta y sesenta. El Servicio Universitario de Trabajo (SUT) promovió que los estudiantes compartieran la vida de agricultores, obreros, mineros, albañiles? e impulsó además programas de alfabetización en áreas rurales y jornadas de ?trabajo dominical? en periferias urbanas. Este servicio, que debía servir de instrumento propagandístico de la Falange (centrado en una de sus principales consignas, ?la erradicación de la lucha de clases que había traído la guerra?) fue una experiencia clave para muchos jóvenes, que descubrieron una realidad para muchos ignorada y que marcó significativamente el resto de sus vidas. En estas fábricas, barrios, pueblos y campos descubrieron el oscuro peso de la guerra en tanta gente, conocieron a esos ?santos inocentes? que tan bien dibujó Delibes, y comprobaron que desde los poderes públicos nada se hacía para al
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Liverpool University Press From Franco to Freedom: The Roots of the Transition to Democracy in Spain, 1962-1982
This book brings together recent research by a group of specialists in history and sociology to provide a new reading of the late Franco dictatorship, especially in relation to its political culture. The authors focus on the election of local, trade union and national representatives, the work of the first Spanish sociologists, the struggle over administrative reform, the role of the media and the intellectuals, as well as the evolution of the dictatorships political class and its response to the regimes decline. Not only are the politics of the late dictatorship scrutinised, but also the mechanisms that were deployed to control the fast-changing society of the 1960s and 1970s. In examining the late Franco period, the contributors do not believe that it contained the seeds of Spains later democratisation, but maintain that certain sectorial regime initiatives -- electoral and political changes, an evolving discourse and an interest in political processes outside Spain -- made many Spaniards aware of the dictatorships contradictions and limitations, thereby encouraging its subsequent political and social evolution. This transformation is compared with the latter stages of the parallel dictatorship in Portugal. The great majority of Spaniards felt that the embrace of democratic freedoms and integration into the European Community was the only way forward during the Transition. But the shift from dictatorship to democracy from the 1960s onwards in Spain needs to be understood in relation to the multitude of political and social changes that took place -- despite the opposition of Franco and the bunker mentality of the regime. These changes manifested in a complex interaction between internal and external factors, which eventually resulted in the transformation of Spanish society itself.
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