ABSTRACT
Steven Forti examines the transnational influences on the Spanish right in the 1920s and 1930s. Fascism was of course a deeply influential current but we must be careful to consider internal, national developments and contexts. In the Spanish case, a reactionary nationalist expression was also available. Spanish fascism had origins in the Regenerationist movement whilst national Catholicism was central to the other ideological expression of the right. These two cultures inter-reacted internally and with international currents, with the French and Portuguese right as well as Italian fascism being especially influential, though differing in the importance given to tradition and the question of the mobilization of the masses. International ideas contributed to the ideological renewal of the Spanish right, which became evident in the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. New perspectives such as corporatism became increasingly important. The political world of the Spanish right intensified during the Second Republic and their fusion was finally achieved during the civil war, though important differences remained.
