La destrucción de las asociaciones agrarias y rurales y el proyecto totalitario de Falange en la construcción del orden franquista (1936-1947)

Lourenzo Fernández Prieto; Juan Pan-Montojo

Authors

Lourenzo Fernández Prieto Universidade de Santiago de Compostela https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3206-2428
Juan Pan-Montojo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7472-6013

Keywords:

civil society, rural, associationism, fascism, Interwar years, democracy

Abstract

Historiography on the Spanish civil War has paid limited attention to the social aspects of the conflict. This article aims at presenting the historical dimensions of the destruction of agrarian associations, which translated the pluralism of rural society. To do so we explain the end and prohibition offree and voluntary associations that had developed under liberalism, from the 1880s onwards. This process appears to be closely related to the building up of a totalitarian order in the rural world. The conflicts, results, limits and consequences of the deployment of this Falangist project are analysed in the second part of the article.

Author Biographies

Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Professor of Contemporary History, he coordinates the histagra.usc.gal Group, Department of History, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. He has been a visiting professor at UCCork, CUNY and Princeton and has directed the Interuniversity Project ‘Nomes e Voces’ (nomesevoces.gal). Recent works include: with Aurora Artiaga (eds.) (2014), Otras miradas sobre golpe, guerra y dictadura, La Catarata; with Miguel Cabo and Juan Pan-Montojo, (2014) Agriculture in the Age of Fascism. 1922-1945, Brepols; with Gustavo Hervella (2018), Historia de la guerra civil contada por dos hermanas, Comares; with Antonio Miguez (2018), Golpistas e verdugos de 1936. Historia dun pasado incómodo, Galaxia; with Antonio Miguez and Dolores Vilavedra (2020), 1936: Un nuevo relato, PUZ.

Juan Pan-Montojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has been a visiting researcher at the New School for Social Research (USA) and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FRG) and visiting professor at the Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France). He is the author of, among other works, Apostolado, profesión y tecnología. Una historia de los ingenieros agrónomos en España (2005) and has edited, co-edited and participated en El sueño republicano de Rico Avello (2011), Agriculture in the age of fascism (2014), España. La búsqueda de la democracia, 1960-2010, volume V of Spain. América Latina en la época contemporánea (2015), Agriculture in capitalist Europe: from food shortages to food surpluses (2016) y Making politics in the European countryside, 1780s-1930s (2020).