The Portuguese Revolution Of 1974 1975

Author : Maria Inácia Rezola PhD
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 183764117X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975 written by Maria Inácia Rezola PhD and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Portugal is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, this book conveys a global and differentiating perspective on the aims and actions of its three main protagonists – the Armed Forces, the political parties and mass social organizations – by close examination of original archival documentation; oral and written primary sources; and government records.

Author : Raquel Varela
Publisher : People's History
ISBN 13 : 9780745338576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution written by Raquel Varela and published by People's History. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 25, 1974, a coup destroyed the ranks of Estado Novo's fascist government in Portugal. Ordinary people flooded the streets of Lisbon, placing red carnations in the barrels of guns and demanding a land for those who work in it. This spontaneous revolt placed power in the hands of the working classes, trade unions, and women. In order to understand the Carnation Revolution, we must recognize it as an international coalition of social movements, comprised of struggles for independence in Portugal's African colonies, the rebellion of the young military captains of the Armed Forces Movement, and the uprising of Portugal's long-oppressed working classes. Cutting against the grain of mainstream accounts, Raquel Cardeira Varela shows how it was through the organizing power of these diverse movements that a popular-front government was instituted along with the nation's withdrawal from its overseas colonies. Offering a rich account of the challenges these coalitions faced and the victories they won through revolutionary means, this book tells the tumultuous history behind the Carnation Revolution.

Author : Maria Inácia Rezola
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9781789761832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975 written by Maria Inácia Rezola and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal is close to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. While this central moment in contemporary Portuguese history has long attracted international academic interest, there is a dearth of studies that explain the interrelationships between the main issues that singled out this revolutionary moment. The aims and actions of the three main protagonists the Armed Forces, the political parties and mass social organizations are linked in myriad ways: the political role of the Armed Forces; the crisis of state authority; the political justice formulas adopted; the affirmation of civilian political elites; the role of workers and neighbourhood movements, and other forms of popular mobilization; participation of the media in the political struggle; and post the momentous days, the transition from coup detat to revolution. The dominant moments and themes of the Portuguese revolution are relayed by close examination of original archival documentation; oral and written primary sources; and government records. Was military disquiet at the heart of the move toward democracy? Or was the instigator the growing dissatisfaction of the populace with the political class? A prime aim of the book is to view the revolution not only in terms of Portugals global position at the time, especially its historic colonialism, but what all players thought and expressed in the run-up to the 25th of April. Attention is paid to the immediate post-revolution period, and the national, political and military choices made as this unexpected path to democracy took hold.

Author : Maria Inácia Rezola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789761375
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese Revolution Of 1974-1975 written by Maria Inácia Rezola and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal is close to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. While this central moment in contemporary Portuguese history has long attracted international academic interest, there is a dearth of studies that explain the interrelationships between the main issues that singled out this revolutionary moment. The aims and actions of the three main protagonists - the Armed Forces, the political parties and mass social organizations - are linked in myriad ways: the political role of the Armed Forces; the crisis of state authority; the political justice formulas adopted; the affirmation of civilian political elites; the role of workers and neighbourhood movements, and other forms of popular mobilization; participation of the media in the political struggle; and post the momentous days, the transition from coup d'état to revolution. The dominant moments and themes of the Portuguese revolution are relayed by close examination of original archival documentation; oral and written primary sources; and government records. Was military disquiet at the heart of the move toward democracy? Or was the instigator the growing dissatisfaction of the populace with the pol

Author : Ronald H. Chilcote
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742567931
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese Revolution written by Ronald H. Chilcote and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974-1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through periods of authoritarianism and resistance as well as representative and popular democracy. Exploring the intertwined themes of class, state, and hegemony, Chilcote builds a powerful framework for understanding the Portuguese case as well as contemporary political economy worldwide. New to the paperback edition is an epilogue reflecting on the implications for Portugal EU membership and the Eurozone crisis.

Author : Ozan O. Varol
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019062602X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Coup D'état written by Ozan O. Varol and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term coup d'état--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators. We assume all coups look the same, smell the same, and present the same threats to democracy. It's a powerful, concise, and self-reinforcing idea. It's also wrong. In The Democratic Coup d'État, Ozan Varol advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: Sometimes, a democracy is established through a military coup. Covering events from the Athenian Navy's stance in 411 B.C. against a tyrannical home government, to coups in the American colonies that ousted corrupt British governors, to twentieth-century coups that toppled dictators and established democracy in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book takes the reader on a gripping journey. Connecting the dots between these neglected events, Varol weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we thought we knew about military coups. In so doing, he tackles several baffling questions: How can an event as undemocratic as a military coup lead to democracy? Why would imposing generals-armed with tanks and guns and all-voluntarily surrender power to civilian politicians? What distinguishes militaries that help build democracies from those that destroy them? Varol's arguments made headlines across the globe in major media outlets and were cited critically in a public speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Written for a general audience, this book will entertain, challenge, and provoke, but more importantly, serve as a reminder of the imperative to question the standard narratives about our world and engage with all ideas, no matter how controversial.

Author : Douglas Porch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000535479
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese Armed Forces and the Revolution written by Douglas Porch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1977, traces the origins of the left-wing Portuguese army rebellion of 1974 that overthrew the 50-year-old authoritarian regime of Prime Ministers Salazar and Caetano to the traditional political independence of the armed forces, their increasingly strained relations with the regime, and finally to the colonial wars which brought professional discontent to boiling point. The Portuguese revolution which followed provides a unique laboratory for the study of an army in crisis, the strains which the attempt by officers to direct the political life of the country after April 1974 placed on military organisation; the traditional career patterns and attitudes of soldiers and on discipline. It examines the role of officers in government and the day-to-day problems which political upheaval created in every barracks. This is a study both of the armed forces in politics and politics in the armed forces, placed within the larger context of the revolution.

Author : Pedro Ramos Pinto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lisbon Rising written by Pedro Ramos Pinto and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Lisbon rising -- Contents -- List of Figures and tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: the Carnation Revolution revisited -- 2 The New State and the transformation of urban citizenship, 1926-74 -- 3 From rights to action: April to December 1974 -- 4 Building a movement: September 1974 to June 1975 -- 5 The street and the ballot box: June to November 1975 -- 6 Urban social movements and the making of Portuguese democracy -- Select bibliography -- Index

Author : Phil Mailer
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604866950
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portugal written by Phil Mailer and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the military coup in Portugal on April 25th, 1974, the overthrow of almost fifty years of Fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed eighteen months of intense, democratic social transformation which challenged every aspect of Portuguese society. What started as a military coup turned into a profound attempt at social change from the bottom up and became headlines on a daily basis in the world media. This was due to the intensity of the struggle as well as the fact that in 1974–75 the right-wing moribund Francoist regime was still in power in neighboring Spain and there was huge uncertainty as to how these struggles might affect Spain and Europe at large. This is the story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974, and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant. It depicts the hopes, the tremendous enthusiasm, the boundless energy, the total commitment, the released power, even the revolutionary innocence of thousands of ordinary people taking a hand in the remolding of their lives. And it does so against the background of an economic and social reality which placed limits on what could be done.

Author : Pedro Ramos Pinto
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526103060
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lisbon rising written by Pedro Ramos Pinto and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisbon rising explores the role of a widespread urban social movement in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy. It is the first in-depth study of the widest urban movement of the European post-war period, an event that shook the balance of Cold War politics by threatening the possibility of revolution in Western Europe. Using hitherto unknown sources produced by movement organisations themselves, it challenges long-established views of civil society in Southern Europe as weak, arguing that popular movements had an important and autonomous role in the process that led to democratisation, inviting us to rethink the history and theories of transitions in the region in ways that account for popular agency. Lisbon rising will be of interest not only to students of twentieth-century European history, but across disciplines to students of democratisation, social movements and citizenship in political science and sociology.