In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.
Michael Wirges
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José Pacheco Pereira
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António Muñoz Sánchez
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Luis Costa Correia
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Daniela Münkel
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Gert Peukert
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Alberto Arons de Carvalho
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Hans-Ulrich Bünger
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Rainer Bettermann
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In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.
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