A Particular Interpretation of the History of Spain

Authors

  • Dr. Juan José Morales Ruiz Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12683328

Keywords:

Franco, History of Spain, Spanish Civil War, War Crimes, Repression of Spanish Freemasons, Masonic Studies, SDG 4, SDG 10, SDG 16, SDG 17

Abstract

Franco's speeches are loaded with anti-liberal rhetorical arguments, peppered with anti-communism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Masonry. Many examples can be given. In them, he presented his particular interpretation of the history of Spain, a rhetorical model on which the revisionist theses would later be based. In this sense, we will study, as inspiring sources of the revisionist positions in the study of contemporary history, some examples that reflect his particular analysis of the history of Spain, which will be based on his oft-repeated theory of the Jewish-masonic-communist conspiracy.

Author Biography

Dr. Juan José Morales Ruiz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Doctor in Information Sciences from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. He has been a professor of the Master's in the History of Freemasonry in Spain and America in the Department of History of Law and Institutions at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Distance Education (UNED). He has also been a professor of Contemporary Spanish History in the Department of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Geography and History at UNED. He is a member of the Center for Historical Studies of Spanish Freemasonry (CEHME) at the University of Zaragoza. He has specialized in the study of anti-Masonic discourse and the repression of Freemasonry during the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist period. In this same collection, he is the author of "Killer Words: The Anti-Masonic Discourse in the Spanish Civil War."

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Published

2024-07-08

How to Cite

Morales Ruiz, J. J. (2024). A Particular Interpretation of the History of Spain. Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Human Rights and Science, 6(5). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12683328

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