The Social Transition as Perceived by Francoism. Public Space and the Extension of Dissent in the Light of the Reports of the Civil Government and the A Coruña Movement

Abstract

It analyses the role played by society in the evolution experienced by the Franco regime since the early 1960s, the tensions that arose from the growth and spread of dissent in the coalition that supported it, its influence on the erosion of the dictatorship and the transition to a democratic system. To this end, a micro-historical approach has been adopted, centred on A Coruña, which focuses on the regime’s perception of these phenomena, analysing, essentially, the documentation generated by the Civil Government and the Provincial Headquarters of the Movement, which reveal, respectively, both the effects caused by the public events held during that period, and the reflections, attitudes and proposals which, aimed at renewing or recovering the consent of society, were formulated.