A Diplomatic Mission: Spain and the 1948 London Olympics

Viuda-Serrano, Alejandro

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“…Likewise, Spanish sportsmen, most of them Catalans, attended various sporting events organized by the workers' movement during the war, especially the Antwerp Workers' Olympics (García Candau, 2007 ; Arrechea, 2019 ) and the events organized by the Fédération Sportive et Gymnique du Travail (FSGT) in France (L'Humanité, 1937 ). Pro-Franco rebels, however, from the beginning of the war used sport as a diplomatic weapon (Domínguez and Pujadas, 2011 ), a usual Francoist strategy during the next years (Viuda-Serrano, 2010 ), with the clear intention of legitimizing the rebel institutions at an international level, creating a double sporting officialdom with governing bodies different from the Republican ones. The rebels were victorious in this war too, for in 1937 they achieved international recognition for the new Spanish Football Federation from FIFA and for the new Spanish Olympic Committee from the IOC.…”

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Doomed Youth: Antonio Cánovas, a Young Sportsman in Time of War in 1930s Spain

Viuda-Serrano

Ibarrondo-Merino

2021

Front. Sports Act. Living

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During the Spanish Civil War (SCW) 1936–1939, many young working-class sportsmen volunteered. They were both physically and politically active and some of them outstanding athletes. The search of these unknown men has just begun. Doomed Youth is a tribute to them and the first step toward a bigger attempt to better comprehend the role of sportsmen volunteers enlisted during the first months of the SCW, a fact that to date has received little scholar attention. Archival research, especially war combatants' family records as well as newspaper archives, oral memories of the protagonists left alive, and historical contextualization were defined as the appropriate methods to conduct the research. This paper is devoted to one of these young volunteers, Antonio Cánovas, recently dead in 2018 at the age of 98, whose life story in the 1930s and 1940s may be taken as the epitome of the young working-class sportsman of the cutting-edge regions of Spain in the first half of the 20th century: youngsters aware of their political and social rights whose dreams of social justice and active life were dashed by the war.

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Doomed Youth: Antonio Cánovas, a Young Sportsman in Time of War in 1930s Spain

Viuda-Serrano

Ibarrondo-Merino

2021

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Héroes de papel: El deporte y la prensa como herramientas de propaganda política del fascismo y el franquismo. Una perspectiva histórica comparada.

Viuda-Serrano

Aja

2013

Hist. Comun. Soc.

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ResumenEsta investigación se plantea definir los mecanismos de apropiación y utilización del deporte y la prensa como elementos de legitimación y propaganda, que los regímenes fascista y franquista llevaron a cabo en el periodo de entreguerras. Se establecerá una comparación, desde el punto de vista histórico, entre Benito Mussolini y Francisco Franco, así como entre sus respectivas ideologías y modos de actuación. Para ello se utilizarán fuentes de archivo y publicaciones periódicas de la época, tanto de Italia como de España, así como las investigaciones más importantes de otros autores que han trabajado sobre temas de interés para este estudio. El objetivo es realizar una aportación historiográfica relevante y novedosa.Palabras clave: Deporte; prensa; Mussolini; Franco; propaganda; adoctrinamiento ideológico.Paper heroes: Sport and press as fascism and francoism political propaganda issue. A comparative historical view Abstract This manuscript seeks to define the mechanisms of appropriation and use of Sport and Press as legitimation and propaganda means carried out along the interwar years by fascist and francoist regimes. A historical comparison between Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco and also between their ideologies and behaviors was needed. In order to do so archive documents and periodicals of that period, in Italy and Spain, as well as the most important scholar researches on the topic have been analyzed. The aim is to get a relevant and innovative historiographical contribution.

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A Diplomatic Mission: Spain and the 1948 London Olympics

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Doomed Youth: Antonio Cánovas, a Young Sportsman in Time of War in 1930s Spain

Doomed Youth: Antonio Cánovas, a Young Sportsman in Time of War in 1930s Spain

Héroes de papel: El deporte y la prensa como herramientas de propaganda política del fascismo y el franquismo. Una perspectiva histórica comparada.

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