TY  - GEN
T1  - The People’s Dictator
A1  - Quiroga, Alejandro
LA  - eng
PB  - Taylor & Francis
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-151244
AB  - This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who played a key role in the shaping of a counterrevolutionary Europe in the interwar era.
 
 Following new historiographical trends, this book combines biographical experiences of the dictator with a sociopolitical reading of the dictatorship to reflect on the configuration of national, political, and gender identities at individual and group levels. It challenges traditional readings of Primo de Rivera as a benign, non-ideological leader who established a paternalistic dictatorship, instead showing an astute and ambitious politician who created a nationalist, highly repressive, authoritarian regime profoundly influenced by Italian fascism. The monograph also explores Primo de Rivera's role as the creator of right-wing populism in Spain, who portrayed politicians and judges as enemies of the Spanish people, used 'fake news' in his propaganda machine, and presented himself as a charismatic leader ready to destroy the liberal elites.
 
 This book is intended for scholars and students specialising in Spanish history and politics, along with those interested in nationalism, populism, far-right movements, Fascism, dictators and authoritarian regimes in twentieth-century European history.
SN  - 9781032691817
SN  - 9781040321607
SN  - 9781032691848
KW  - Spanish conservatism;Stanley Payne;Spanish Populism;2nd Marquis of Estella;King Alfonso XIII;José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez;Dámaso Berenguer
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
ER  -