Abstract

SARDICA, José Miguel. The Memory of the Portuguese First Republic throughout the Twentieth Century. e-JPH [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.1, pp.65-92. ISSN 1645-6432.

The Portuguese First Republic (1910-1926) is still today a historical period marked by the controversies it generated. Despite its overall failure as an attempt to democratize and modernize the country, the regime left a powerful legacy in the collective memory, acritically glorified or condemned, depending on whether it fueled the apologetic and proselytic view of the utopia-to-be or, in contrast, the devilish view of a close-to-anarchy and Jacobin-like experience. This text analyzes the way in which the First Republic's memory became a topic for heated debate, marking out positions and projecting them onto the appreciations that successive Portuguese generations were to make on this matter throughout the twentieth century.

Keywords : First Republic; republicanism; memory; historiography; commemoration.

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