
Alexander Baunov’s book explores the mechanisms behind the fall of three 20th-century European dictatorships: the regimes of Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal, and the 'Black Colonels' junta in Greece. The author analyzes how these authoritarian systems came to an end, what factors contributed to their collapse, and how the transition to a democratic structure occurred. The work offers a deep political science analysis of the historical processes involved in political regime transformation.