Проанализированы причины краха созданного диктатором Антониу Салазаром «нового государства», завершившегося апрельской революцией 1974 г., представлены политические портреты деятелей той эпохи. Охарактеризованы сложившаяся в постреволюционный период политическая модель и современный этап развития страны. На примере одной страны показана объективную неизбежность политического дряхления авторитарных режимов и неотвратимость перемен.
The 45th anniversary of the "Carnation
Revolution” in Portugal:
Lessons of the past and actual content.
The article is dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the "Carnation Revolution" and is devoted to the history of authoritarianism in Portugal. The author analyzes the causes of the collapse of the "new state" created by dictator Antonio Salazar, which ended with the April revolution of 1974, presents political portraits of the main figures of that era. The work contains the characteristic of the political model developed in the post-revolutionary period and allows to form an opinion about the current stage of development to the country. The main objective of the study is to show, on a particular example of one country, the objective inevitability of political decrepitude of authoritarian regimes and the inevitability of the political and social changes demanded by the society.