Between will and imposition: the Patriotic Subscriptions in the Spanish Civil War

Abstract

The lack of a national treasure in the early days of the war, the lengthening of it and the inadequacy of resources forced the insurgents to establish extraordinary measures to extract funds from the population, channeled through fiscal figures exceptional and patriotic subscriptions. They became a formula halfway between the «purchase» of a Treasury bond, whereby they would not give economic but political interests, and the tax aspect, because in a repressive context the contribution was not made freely. A follow-up to the Subscriber process will help us to respond to issues related to collaboration and resistance and to whether patriotic subscriptions contributed to the creation of the Francoist imaginary.