Formas de participación y experiencia política durante el primer franquismo: la pugna por los principios ordenadores de la vida en comunidad durante el periodo de entreguerras (1936-1947)

It’s paradoxical, to say the least, the low attention paid by the Spanish historiography to phenomena as political participation and experience into Francoism, specially taking into account its importance in order to understand any modern political regime, because these realities give us an exceptional approach of its peculiar nature. Francoism got a great variety of ways to participate and experience politics off the ground as radical responses facing the challenge of modernity. This article raises some of them. As I tried to show, each daily fact took on an essential participatory dimension during the first decade of the regime, which make sense around its peculiar conception of militancy. Without a doubt, the most important scene was posed by the coup d’état and the Spanish Civil War. The regime turned both into a plebiscite of the people risen up in arms which would make possible the massive participation in History of the Spaniards and the fulfilment of the fascist way through a kind of combative Christianity. Nonetheless the article goes beyond the omnipresent horizon of the war to focus into the changing channels of political representation and participation during the post-war which were culminated by the 1947 referendum, a crucial fact in the constitution of the regime.