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Aug 7, 2020 · During Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s, the communist leader Santiago Carrillo observed that without King Juan Carlos “the shooting would have already...
Oct 17, 2017 · Abstract. The Spanish Communist Party (PCE), under the leadership of Santiago Carrillo (1960–1982), developed the path of Eurocommunism. This was in part a rethinking of communism's approach to Western parliamentary systems, as well as an indigenous strategy for adapting the party to the transition in Spain from dictatorship to democracy.
Apr 13, 2013 · Preston adds that Carrillo’s major downfall was that he never offered a ‘sincere explanation’ for the Paracuellos massacres in which 2,000-4,000 Nationalists and civilians were executed by ...
Santiago José Carrillo Solares (18 January 1915 – 18 September 2012) was a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from 1960 to 1982. During the Civil War, he was placed at the head of a Republican militia and was in charge of maintaining public order in Madrid.
Sep 22, 2012 · By the time the police detained him for eight days in December 1976, he had already played a crucial role in pushing Adolfo Suárez’s interim government in the direction of reform. The PCE was...
Mar 19, 2015 · Thorough research by Preston leads to the conclusion that Carrillo played a leading part in the greatest single atrocity on the Republican side when, in late 1936, thousands of imprisoned opponents were summarily executed as Madrid seemed poised to fall.
Sep 18, 2012 · Spanish former Communist leader Santiago Carrillo, who fought in the 1930s civil war then played a key role in the transition to democracy, dies aged 97.
