Blue spring: falangist revitalization and struggle for the Nation in the local framework, 1948-1953

Abstract

In 1945 everyone took for granted the dissolution of Falange. Nevertheless, from 1948, the Party returned to the foreground of the national political scene, challenging the hegemonic national-catholic project. The aim of this article is to approach the struggle’s development and consequences between the two dominant political cultures inside Franco’s regime and, specifically, their aftermath at the local level. To do this, first, we attend to the Falangist resurgence and to its main discursive arguments to attract new social support. And, second, we approach to the cultural sphere, in an effort to decode the impact of the Falange’s «openness» and national-catholicism inmmobility over the Spanish Society.