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Aguilar, Paloma. Políticas de la Memoria y Memorias de la Política(“Politics of Memory and Memory of Politics”). Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2008.
Paloma Aguilar's new book explores how political science can combine theoretical acuity with overwhelming historical documentation and careful survey analysis.
Aróstegui, Julio, ed. Franco, La Represión como Sistema(“Franco, Repression as a System”). Barcelona: Flor del Viento Ediciones, 2012.
Far from being based on the Law, the foundation of Franco's power was always repression, the extra-political coercion of those governed through non-legitimate violence, with results that went from the summary execution of many enemies to prison detention, estrangement, seizure of property, forced labor, etc.
Duva, Jesús and Natalia Junquera. Vidas Robadas(“Stolen Lives”). Madrid: Santillana Ediciones Generales, 2012.
When justice forgets victims, it ceases to be justice to become an instrument of impunity. This book puts voice and form to the hope of the victims.
González Duro, Enrique. Las Rapadas. El Franquismo contra la Mujer (“Shaved women. Francoism against Women”). Madrid: Siglo XXI de España Editores, 2012.
A book about women in Spain during the Francoism era.
Vega Sombría, Santiago. La Política del Miedo. El Papel de la Represión en el Franquismo (“Politics of Fear. The Role of Repression in Francoism”). Barcelona: Crítica, 2011.
Repression is usually considered as a consequence of the civil war and the violence generated by the conflict on both sides. But Santiago Vega Sombría now offers us a new and very different perspective, based on a global analysis of the role that repression played as an essential element of the state and the Francoist political system. It is not just about the deaths, this is about the executions and the murders that from July 1936 to September 1975 fulfilled the function of paralyzing any opposition to terror, but of studying together the various ways in which he implemented a fear policy.