University of Santiago de Compostela (1939-1969): from the Indifference and “No Adhesion” to the Antifrancoism

Abstract

This work presents the successive changes that took place at the University of Santiago de Compostela between 1939 and 1969 and focuses on how this transformation was propitiated and gestating from within. It explains the circumstances of the period of purging and control of the military victory, continues with the barren panorama of the fifties, and goes on until the events of 1965 and later on, in 1968, the extension of the emancipatory and democratic outbreak of young. The increase of confrontation in other campuses, from where coordination and effective organization models were imported, the changing of attitude from part of the teaching staff, together with the general sociopolitical struggle against Francoism, were decisive to wear down the Franco hierarchy. After suffering a recession with hard repression, encouraging results were achieved with a harmony of change.