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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Joan Maria Thomàs. La Falange de Franco: Fascismo y fascistización en el régimen franquista (1937–1945). (Así fue: La historia rescatada, number 47.) Barcelona: Plaza and Janés. 2001. Pp. 398.

The history of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship was for years weakened by determinist analytical structures and, in some cases, by ideological bias. In effect, Francoists in Spain and Republican sympathizers in exile continued the conflict after 1939 as a "war of words." For a decade or more, the former depicted the war as a crusade against atheist communism while the latter reconstructed the conflict as a simple struggle between "democracy" and "fascism." The "fascist" label was so firmly tied to Francisco Franco's state political organization, in order to condemn the regime as a whole, that even by the 1970s historical study continued to be fixated on taxonomic considerations. Joan Maria Thomàs's book reflects the general drift of the historiography since the early 1980s away from functionalist approaches and toward the historicization of the recent past in Spain, especially in relation to the civil war and the dictatorship.

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