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During the rule of General Francisco Franco, Spain had a highly complex and tense relationship with the European integration process in the years preceding and following the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC) under the Treaty of Rome in March 1957.
ABSTRACT. While 85 years have now passed since the end of the Spanish Civil War, and 46 since the end of the Franco Dictatorship, historical memory continues to be a great source of political and social tension in Spain today.
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The essays by historians, anthropologists, literary scholars, journalists, and cultural analysts gathered here represent the first interdisciplinary analysis of how present-day Spain has sought to come to terms with the violence of Franco's regime.
"Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain" addresses the political, cultural, and historical debate that has ensued in Spain as a result of the recent discovery and exhumation of mass graves dating from the years during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).
In the present study, we will mainly focus on the evolution since 1975 of the historical representation in the press and parliamentary debates of the main anniversaries of Spanish recent history related to the Civil War, the Francoist regime, and the transition itself.
Jan 20, 2024 · This chapter explores the evolving stance of the Spanish radical Left towards national identity, focusing on the pivotal role of Podemos since 2014. Historically, the radical Left avoided Spanish patriotic rhetoric from late-Francoism onwards.
Fraga’s brother-in-law, Carlos Robles Piquer, was the chief architect of this exercise in soft-power designed to showcase that the prosperity and sta- bility of the Franco regime had allowed the wounds of the Civil War to heal. See Carsten Humlebaek, Inventing the Nation(London: Bloomsbury, 2015), .
