Hodlevs'ka V. Transition from authoritarism to the democratic society in Spain (years 1960 - 1982).

The thesis is complex research of Spain history within late frankism, its evolution and peaceful transformation in the democratic parliamentary system. This subjects is not developed in the domestic historical science. Thus, the introduced problem may be considered to be important for the subsequent development of Spanish studies in Ukraine which is only in the process of foundation. In the thesis for the first time in the domestic Spanish studies the part of various genre, documentary sources of the late frankism and postfrankistic period is analysed, systematized and used, historiographic analysis of the foreign, first of all Spain literature by investigated problem is executed. In the thesis the basic preconditions of Spain transition to the democracy are found out; the basic regularity and features of transformation of the Spanish society from the authoritarian structure to the full-fledged democratic one are set; the factors which have ensured its irreversibility are analysed.