“Los Últimos de la Tricolor”republicanos y republicanismo durante la transición hacia la democracia en España (1969-1977)

Abstract

The historiographical work about the Spanish Transition to Democracy has barely studied Spanish republicans and republicanism. It has been mainly considered that, by the period between 1975 to 1982, the last Spanish republicans had disappeared and their political project had died with them. However, in our PhD. Thesis we will try to explain that this alternative that republicans represented was appropiate to the socio-political context of the period. Actually, the final death of Spanish republicanism was related to the political struggles of power during the Transition and, especially, the strain between post-Francoist institutions and the last republican leaders, who could not participate during the proccess as other political forces from the opposition to the regime were able to. This situation determined the survival of Spanish republicanism, whereas the political reform of the dictature turned into a representative democracy.