Un rojo nella Falange. La deriva fascista di Óscar Pérez Solís

Authors

Steven Forti Instituto de História Contemporanea — Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Keywords:

Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Ideological Drifts,, Defectors, Catholicism

Abstract

A rojo in the Falange. The Fascist Drift of Óscar Pérez Solís

The political career of Óscar Pérez Solís was certainly peculiar. In 1912 he leaves the Army to embrace socialism; in 1921 he is one of the founders of the Communist Party of Spain; in 1928 he converts to catholicism and abjure com- munism; in 1936 he is involved in the coup against the Second Spanish Repub- lic. He died in 1951 as a Phalange’s propagandist. This article examines the ideological drift of Pérez Solís — that was not the only one in interwar Europe — and the moments of change that allowed his conversion to fascism.

Received: 25-04-2015

Author Biography

Steven Forti, Instituto de História Contemporanea — Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Steven Forti è ricercatore presso l’Instituto de História Contemporãnea dell’Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Membro del Centre d’Estudis sobre les Epoques Franquista i Democràtica (CEFID) e del Seminario Interuniversitario de Investigadores del Fascismo (SIdIF), ha da poco pubblicato El peso de la nación. Nicola Bombacci, Paul Marion y Óscar Pérez Solís en la Europa de entreguerras (Santiago de Compostela, 2014).