The End of the Regime: How Three European Dictatorships Came to an End

In the second half of the 20th century, three last dictatorships of Western Europe came to an end — the Franco regime in Spain, Salazar's regime in Portugal, and the "black colonels" in Greece. Their citizens ultimately preferred a democratic system over an authoritarian one. In his book, political researcher and journalist Alexander Baunov discusses how these dictatorships tried to prolong their existence and how they ended, the differences and similarities of this transition resulting from a peaceful transformation in Spain, revolutionary events in Portugal, and a military adventure in Greece, and about the people, thanks to or despite whom this transition took place.