The Spanish monarchy and early Francoism: Alternative or complement?
The 1936 Nationalist rebellion against the Second Republic raised the possibility of a monarchist restoration to Spain. But a monarchy restored on Franco's terms would have served only to complement a semi‐fascist regime. The refusal of the Pretender to the Spanish throne ‐ after January 1941 D...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2000
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Totalitarian movements and political religions
Year: 2000, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 47-76 |
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| Summary: | The 1936 Nationalist rebellion against the Second Republic raised the possibility of a monarchist restoration to Spain. But a monarchy restored on Franco's terms would have served only to complement a semi‐fascist regime. The refusal of the Pretender to the Spanish throne ‐ after January 1941 Don Juan de Borbon — to accept this subordination led to the monarchist opposition of the 1940s. Despite this, it is argued here that in this early period Don Juan's monarchy did not constitute a democratic alternative to Francoism. It was only when, through political ineptitude, he lost the sympathies of the Spanish Right in 1947, that he sanctioned monarchist cooperation with the democratic republican opposition for an anti‐Franco coalition. Once it became clear that the western democracies would not back this coalition, Don Juan returned to Franco for a negotiated settlement. The dictatorship's substitution by monarchist authoritarianism, however, would have constituted at most an institutional change. Don Juan's monarchy was not an ideological alternative to Francoism. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-9647 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Totalitarian movements and political religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14690760008406932 |