The Portuguese Revolution
The Portuguese Revolution

Summary/Abstract: Portugal was a republic from 1910 to 1926, but under it parliamentary institutions did not work very well, also because of a widespread corruption and an unfavorable economic background. After only sixteen years a military coup d’état put an end to it instead installing a military dictatorship that promised order, authority, and discipline. Political parties were abolished, the small but well-rooted Marxist groups were fought and republican institutions definitively were put away. In 1928 University of Coimbra professor António de Oliveira Salazar was invited by the regime to serve as minister of finance, and four years later he became prime minister. ‘O Estado Novo’ (the new state) was born.

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