ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the study of grass-roots society across Spain in the years 1939-51. It begins by studying the cultural aspects of the everyday life in this period, focusing on the meanings of the symbols and rites that shaped the lives of both the victors and the defeated. The chapter examines the socioeconomic repression. It also shows how the Francoist victors of the Civil War continued after the formal cessation of hostilities to fight against those they had formally defeated on the battlefield by forging a 'victory culture'. British theorist Raymond Williams, we understand 'culture' as a vast, heterogeneous and multiform concept that conditions the interaction between society and politics. The Francoist repression was far more than just physical repression associated with imprisonment and execution. The destiny of the defeated also fitted comfortably with the goals of the dictatorship.
