1st Edition
Interacting Francoism Entanglement, Comparison and Transfer between Dictatorships in the 20th Century
Interacting Francoism: A tale of 20th-century dictatorships
José M. Faraldo and Gutmaro Gómez Bravo
Part I - Systems
1. An analytical characterization of totalitarian language: The case of Francoism in context
Gonzalo Lorenzo López
2. The birth of total war in terms of air defence: The meaning of the Spanish Civil War
Diego Martínez
3. Undesirable foreigners in democracy and dictatorship: Comparing the changing status of Spanish exiles in France (1936–1945)
Jonay Pérez
Part II - Interacting Surveillance
4. Investigation, surveillance and control: Spain in the era of total intelligence and fascist Europe (1914–1939)
Carlos Piriz
5. Constructing modern surveillance: Military intelligence in the punitive system of early Francoism
Gutmaro Gómez Bravo
6. Varguism and Francoism in connection: The “policing” of diplomacy (1936–1939)
Mariana Cardoso dos Santos Ribeiro
Part III - (Inter)national Interactions
7. Women’s organizations, gender equality and dictatorships: Celebrating International Women’s Year (1975) in Poland and Spain
Natalia J. Jarska
8. Republican crimes, Soviet origins? Francoist mythology and violence in the Russian and Spanish revolutions
Fernando Jiménez Herrera
9. Who’s speaking? Eastern European exile in Franco’s Spain and the Cold War propaganda battle
Sarah Lemmen
Part IV - Interacting Everyday Life
10. Heroic models in daily life: Soviet children and the Spanish Civil War
Olga Ilyukha
11. The supply question in Total War: Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
Ainhoa Campos
12. “A pyre of ration cards”: Practices of everyday resistance during Francoism in context
Olga Román Ruiz
Biography
José M. Faraldo is associate professor in the department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). He worked from 1997 to 2002 at the European University Viadrina, in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany) and from 2004 to 2008 he was research fellow and project coordinator at the Center of Research on Contemporary History, (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, ZZF), in Potsdam (Germany). He has published extensively on the subject of nationalism, communism, resistance against fascism and communism, exiles from dictatorships and the archives and legacy of the communist secret police. Most recent books: Contra Hitler y Stalin. La Resistencia en Europa (1936-1956), Madrid: Alianza 2022; Collapsed Empires. The Consequences of 1917 in Europe and the Mediterranean, Zurich: Lit Verlag 2020.
Gutmaro Gómez Bravo is associate professor in the department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is a member of the Civil War and Francoism Research Group. His broad areas of interest are political violence, penal and penitentiary systems, social history and repression. He is the author of various monographs Esclavos del Tercer Reich. Los españoles del campo de Mauthausen. Madrid, Catedra 2022 (with Diego Martinez); Hombres sin nombre. La reconstrucción del socialismo en la clandestinidad (1939-1970). Madrid., Cátedra 2021; (ed) Asedio. Historia de Madrid en la Guerra Civil. Madrid, Ediciones Complutense 2018; Geografía Humana de la represión franquista. Del golpe a la guerra de ocupación. (1936-1941), Madrid, Cátedra 2017.
