El franquismo y los imaginarios míticos del fascismo europeo de entreguerras
This article raises a series of reflections centered on the biggest or minor grade of fascistization experienced by the Francoist regime during the first stage of its implantation. Also, it carries a trip out for the phenomena of spread and contamination with which the mythical imaginaries, and the idealized recreations of the fascism, impregnated the different authoritarian and anti-parliamentary regimes that were erected in Europe during the interwar period. In the Spain of the thirties, a mixed reactionary coalition experienced a sort of self-fascination about the efficacy of the fascist proposals to face to the challenges of mass-mobilizaThis content downloaded from 40.77.167.71 on Sat, 19 Nov 2016 04:34:46 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Francisco Cobo Romero El franquismo y los imaginarios miticos del fascismo tion and democracy. The Francoisi regime, as other political regimes more or less intensely fascistizated of the twenties and thirties of last century, incorporated a good amount of the styles, the forms of impassioned and emotive experience of the politics, the manifestations of the charismatic leadership, or the different sacralizations of the Nation and the State, own of the mythopoeic fascist imaginary.
The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933
The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency -- how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to analyze each national election of the Weimar era, Childres offers a new and challenging interpretation of who voted for Hitler's NSDAP and why. He also provides a systematic examination of Nazi campaign strategy. |A biography of James Longstreet, from his leading role as commander of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia through his controversial postwar career. Although the authors absolve Longstreet of guilt for Gettysburg, they call attention to the consequences of hi
Arab Uprisings and the Outstanding Return to Democracy: Tunisia as a Model
In the wake of the Middle Eastern crises, the Tunisian case in focus has been doted as a unique phenomenon being that it was the Genesis of the revolution that ultimately spread across the Middle East like wild fire, but has eventually heralded a new dawn as democracy has incidentally returned to the Empire. This literature therefore looks closely at the extent to which the ‘DignityRevolution’ has been instrumental in the Middle East uprisings, which have brought an end to dynastic autocracies. The literature zeros in on the Tunisian uprising which has attracted global concerns, sympathy and has sparked interests in the international arena. The literature finds that the people hold colossal prospect in the uprising and its resultant effect, as it paved the way for the revolutionist to generate, gather and disseminate information on the condition of the entire region to the international community. The people in this context were of utmost importance and played a very crucial role in the creation of awareness, mobilization of protesters and utmost determining the direction of the uprising and also ensuring a speedy return to democratic rule. The paper submits that the role of the people in ensuring that the ruins of the uprising is not left littering around and democracy restored is highly commendable and should be a model for all other Arab countries involved in the revolution.