Voices of the revolution : revisiting the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, interviews and insights / edited by Paul Christopher Manuel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manuel, Paul Christopher.

Series:

Portuguese studies review monograph series ; Vol. 4.

Portuguese studies review monograph series, Vol. 4.

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Portugal--Politics and government--1974-.

Portugal.

Communism--Portugal.

Communism.

Portugal--History--Revolution, 1974.

Right-wing extremists--Portugal--History.

Right-wing extremists.

Revolutionaries--Portugal--Interviews.

Revolutionaries.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History

Interviews

Physical Description:

381 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Baywolf Press, 2019.

Language Note:

All the interviews are presented in mirror translation. Portuguese transcriptions of the original archived tapes face a matched English text.

Summary:

After the revolution of 25 April 1974, the future of Portugal was in the hands of those military officers responsible for the overthrow of the previous regime. What would they do? A peaceful transition or a civil war? A capitalist or a communist system? Revenge against the old, or the establishment of a just, legal order? The revolutionary leaders spoke in terms of following a “3 Ds” political program of decolonization, democratization, and development, but there was no unifying conceptual vision of what those three Ds would exactly look like, or indeed any practical plan to achieve them.This new volume, edited by Paul Manuel, revisits the events of April 25 with original interviews and new insights from a number of important scholars, including contributions by Nancy Bermeo, Maria Inácia Rezola, Stewart Lloyd-Jones, Luís Nuno Rodrigues, David Silva Ferreira, and Douglas Wheeler. The volume features interviews with 14 military leaders of the Portuguese Revolution conducted by Paul Manuel. These interviews took place in 1990 and 1991, some 15 years after the founding of the democratic regime in 1976, and just after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. As such, these interviews bear close examination, as they provide perspectives not only on what happened in Portugal after April 25 but also offer an assessment of the role of Portugal in the third wave of global democratization. -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Before the days of wine and carnations: prologue to Portugal's April 25, 1974, revolution

Revolution and transition in Portugal: a literature review

The push and pull of the Processo Revolucionario em Curso (PREC): competing ideological frames after April 25, 1974

Concluding reflection: and end or a beginning for Portugal? Some notes on the legacy of April 25, 1974

A very brief bibliographical essay on the history of April 25.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

ISBN:

9780921437604

0921437609

OCLC:

1403565702