Everyday Dictatorship

Description

Dictatorial figure-heads like Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, Metaxas, and Papadopoulos loom large in national academic and public discourse and in the wider European consciousness, but what remains largely unexplored – especially in comparative perspective – are the subjective lived experiences of those governed by these regimes. We take our inspiration particularly from alltagsgeschichte – the history of everyday life – and microhistory. Our aim is to reveal the complex and varied ways in which ordinary Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Greeks interacted with dictators’ ideologies and practices. We treat the ‘everyday’ not as an easily defined (or definable) ‘thing’ that can be held still a

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