El Sindicato Español Universitario. Estudiantes fascistas, el ejemplo italiano y la lucha contra la democracia en España (1931-1936)

Authors

Francisco Morente Grupo de Estudios República y Democracia (GERD). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Keywords:

Falangism, Fascism, Squadrism, University, Students

Abstract

The University Spanish Union. Fascist Students, the Italian Example and the Fight against Democracy in Spain (1931-1936)

The Spanish University Student Union (SEU) was created immediately after the founding of the fascist party Spanish Falange, in the autumn of 1933. It brought together Falangist university students and was largely inspired by the activism and organization of the Italians Gruppi universitari fascisti (GUF). This paper analyzes the similarities and differences between both organizations in the struggle for power and in the first steps of the consolidation of the respective fascist dictatorships.

Received: 24-12-2017

Admitted: 23-05-2018

Author Biography

Francisco Morente, Grupo de Estudios República y Democracia (GERD). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Francisco Morente è professore ordinario presso il Dipartimento di Storia moderna e contemporanea presso l’Universitat Autònoma di Barcellona. Autore di La Escuela y el Estado Nuevo. La depuración del Magisterio Nacional, 1936-1943 (1996), “Libro e moschetto”. Política educativa y política de juventud en la Italia fascista, 1922-1943 (2001), y Dionisio Ridruejo. Del fascismo al antifascismo (2006). Il suo lavoro piú recente è On Hostile Soil. Spanish Republican Diplomats in Berlin at the Onset of the Spanish Civil War, in “Contemporary History”, n. 26/1, 2017, pp. 46-67.