Ángel Alcalde

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Gracias, Giaime. Me alegro de que the haya servido para las clases. Tomo buena nota de tu opinión sobre el PSd'A, en ese aspecto yo seguí sobre todo a Sabbatucci.

Pese a algunas diferencias de opinión, máxime sobre el Partido Sardo de Acción (que tardó en aceptar el ideario democrático), considero que este libro de @angelalcalde.bsky.social
es excelente. Sobre él he hecho una prueba de evaluación con mis estudiantes.

Ángel Alcalde The Death of Democratic Republics in the 1930s: Germany, Austria, Spain Abstract: This chapter examines how Republics died in the interwar period, focusing on the cases of the Weimar Republic, the Austrian Republic, and the Spanish Second Republic. First, the chapter introduces various traditional interpretations of the de- mise of liberal democracies and rise of authoritarianism in interwar Europe. Then, the chapter provides a review of historical developments in Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain, noting the factors that most commonly allow historians to explain the end of democracies in the 1920s and 1930s. In the last part of the chapter, a new interpre- tive model is proposed, which highlights transnational processes, namely the influ- ence and direct intervention of Italian fascists in Europe, as the key to understand why various interwar democratic Republics fell.

@angelalcalde.bsky.social analyses the interwar authoritarian parties as a genuinely international movement, comparing Germany, Austria and Spain. He argues that we understand fascism better if we see the wider forces driving it, not just the national ones. doi.org/10.1515/9783111705446-021

The Death of Democratic Republics in the 1930s: Germany, Austria, Spain The Death of Democratic Republics in the 1930s: Germany, Austria, Spain was published in How Republics Die on page 493.

My new book chapter: "The Death of Democratic Republics in the 1930s: Germany, Austria, Spain". Published in a very interesting multidisciplinary volume on 'How Republics Die'.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Mussolini’s March on Rome was neither peaceful nor bloodless | Letter Letters: Far from exaggerating the violence of Italian fascism, it could be argued that Joe Wright’s series Mussolini: Son of the Century plays it down, writes John Foot

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

'Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies' has been 'discontinued' for 2025. I ignore the reasons.

Excellent research on the history of fascism is published elsewhere, but this is a strange loss for 2025, as fascism itself is being continued...

Thanks for the photos too!

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How Republics Die Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance, democracy seems fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from inter...

Okay, we have a publication page now. Look for this on Bastille Day. www.degruyter.com/document/isb...

Soon: my seminar at @eui-history.bsky.social on the global and transnational history of fascism!

www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

The Path to Mass Murder: Rebel Decision Making and Francoist Power in the Spanish Civil War | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 95, No 3 Abstract This article analyses the decision-making process of Francoist repression during the Spanish Civil War. Most historians assume that the different phases and methods of Francoist repression we...

My latest article:

The Path to Mass Murder: Rebel Decision Making and Francoist Power in the Spanish Civil War www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

shows how Franco, Mola and Queipo decided in late Jul-1936 to initiate a repressive policy of extermination after they had secured Nazi support.

Historicizing global and transnational fascism

On 5 February at 17.00 CET, join a workshop with Ángel Alcalde on his ongoing work on the emergence of fascism in a transnational and global contex 👉 loom.ly/xRPNWZA

📣 #PoliticalHistory #GlobalHistory

Now reading: Julio Aróstegui's biography of Largo Caballero and D'Annunzio, Il Piacere.

The most bizarre combinations of readings are always the most thought-provoking! 😅

Happy to be back at the EUI in Florence @eui-history.bsky.social as a visiting fellow!

Hello friends and colleagues here in Bluesky!