Materials for the history of the fascism advent in Portugal

Abstract

It is known that the history of the regime in force in Portugal from May 28^th 1926 till April 25^th 1974 is already to be done. Many reasons explain this fact, from the nature itself of such a regime up to the lack of well-grounded studies on Portugal in the twentieth century. Nevertheless, even in the last years of the regime and principally after the 25^th April, it is possible to see the beginning of a
certain attention to this contemporary epoch. Because one may presume that some documents concerning this same epoch - even if they are available in a relatively easy way - are unknown to the majority of the public concerned, one has considered that it was worth while to present an arranged selection, as significant as possible, regarding the period of the fascism advent in Portugal. But it happens that the volume of the collected documents has quickly surpassed what would be acceptable in publication terms as far as a journal like Análise Social is concerned. Thus one has decided to publish only a small part of those documents regarding Sidonism and the North Monarchy (documents to which the article «The Great War and Sidonism», also in the present issue of Análise Social, serves a general introduction). All the remaining material, already collected or about to be collected, will be a documental basis for the elaboration and subsequent publication of several thematic monographies.