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Writing Letters to the State: The Normalization of Salazar's Political Police

Duncan Simpson discusses a letter of denunciation written to the political police during Salazar’s dictatorship in Portugal. Simpson shows how the letter—written by a woman entreating the police to investigate the morality and the politics of her husband-to-be—demonstrates the complexity of the relationships between individuals and the dictatorial state, something that a more top-down, zoomed-out analytical len...

Les Portugais et la PIDE: Pour une Approche 'Par le Bas

Ce chapitre analyse les “interactions quotidiennes” entre la société portugaise et la police politique (PIDE) de la dictature salazariste (État Nouveau), sous la forme de lettres de dénonciations, de pétitions, et de candidatures spontanées. Il s’appuie sur les apports de la bibliographie internationale des pratiques accusatrices, et de la vie quotidienne en dictature, pour aborder la PIDE depuis les perspectiv...

Salazar's Portugal: Living 'by habit' in na authoritarian regime

The multifaceted appeal of the Portuguese new state

O «encanto» multifacetado do Estado Novo: doadores de livros estrangeiros na bi...

O Portugal de Salazar: "Viver habitualmente" num regime autoritário

Em 1938, António de Oliveira Salazar, o líder efetivo do autodenominado Estado Novo ditatorial, disse a um dos seus admiradores estrangeiros, o maurrassiano Henry Marris, que o seu objetivo era "levar Portugal a viver habitualmente". Com isto queria dizer que os portugueses tinham de ser realinhados - pela a força, se necessário - na sua trajetória histórico-social "genuína", tal como era definida pelo regime c...

Approaching the PIDE ‘From Below’: Petitions, Spontaneous Applications and Denu...

Under the Salazar regime, many Portuguese citizens spontaneously interacted with the secret police (PIDE), sending it letters of denunciation, prospective applications and petitions. The historians of the Estado Novo, by reducing the nature of the relations between the PIDE and society to its mechanisms of top-down repression, have overlooked the significance of the phenomenon. Drawing on the inputs of the inte...

Everyday life under the PIDE: A quantitative survey on the relations between or...

This article examines the relations between Portuguese society and Salazar’s political police (PIDE) from the perspective of the everyday lives of ordinary citizens – in contrast to the small minority of oppositionists that has so far monopolized the attention of historians. It is based on a quantitative survey of 400 respondents in four separate locations across Portugal and addresses two main research questio...

A long International Monetary Fund intervention: Portugal 1975-1979

The PIDE Between Memory and History: Revolutionary Tradition, Historiography, a...

The recent historiography of twentieth-century dictatorships has been marked by the innovative exploration of the relations between ordinary citizens and the political police, uncovering systems of social practices characterized by ambiguity, accommodation, and opportunism—all of which contributed to the perpetuation of the dictatorial order. By contrast, the historiography of Salazar’s political police (PIDE) ...