2017/18
66602 - Protest and social movements from 1968
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5.3. Syllabus
The course, Protest and social movements from 1968: from dictatorship to democracy in Spain, 1968-1977, will address the following topics:
1. Historiographical introduction and democratic transition.
2. Pulse of the street and the popular pressure.
- The motor of change: syndicalism and worker protests.
- The loss of future: the university protest.
- “The socialism in one street”: neighborhood protest and women´s.
- The agrarian protest.
3. The breakdown of the supports of the regime.
- The fracture of the church building.
- The army.
- The tribulations of Mister Money: the entrepreneurs.
- The world of the judiciary.
4. The grey blows of repression.
- Political social Brigade.
- Information service of Civil Guard.
- Public order Court (TOP) and military courts.
- “Las partidas de la porra”: extreme right and police collusion.
5. “The foreigner who slanders us”: the international dimension of the Spanish transition.
- United Stated: “almost lived better with Franco”
- France: ¿Louis XIV syndrome?
- West Germany: the pattern of social-democracy.
- Britain: non-intervention... but less.
6. Citizen protests and political elites negotiation: before the agreed reform. Communist and socialist political culture, 1975-1979.
- “Socialism before Marxism”: socialist political cultural.
- The bankruptcy of revolutionary expectations and communist political culture.
7. Epilogue. The inheritance of 1968: ¿pyrrhic defeat?