Instead of dying out, after 2005 the debate on revisionism flamed on and was brought to another level. To some extent sustained by adoption of Ley de la Memoria Historica in 2007,Enrique Moradiellos, Revisión histórica crítica y pseudo-revisionismo político presntista: el caso de la Guerra Civil Española, Badajoz 2011, p. 13. The law triggered another historiographic protest manifesto, titled Manifiesto por la Verdad Histórica and signed among others by Federico Jiménez, César Vidal, José María Marco, Pedro Schwartz, Ricardo de la Cierva and Jesús Palacios, Montesinos 2007, p. 55 the discussion transformed when a group of professional historians challenged the anti-revisionists; from that moment onwards the conflict was no longer between amateurs"aparte de Stanley Payne, no les respaldó ningún historiador profesional importante", Malefakis 2011 and scholars, but between the scholars themselves. It reached another milestone in 2010-2011, the years when Manuel Álvarez Tardío and Roberto Villa García published a general work on the Second Republic and when RAH-edited Diccionario Biográfico Español published a biography of Francisco Franco.some scholars claim that publication of the biogram exposed "the limits of post-Francoist democratization", Chris Ealham, The Emperor's New Clothes: 'Objectivity' and Revisionism in Spanish History, [in:] Journal of Contemporary History 48/1 (2012), p. 192 The latter caused heated controversy mostly in popular discourse; according to many, the biography was revisionist and scandalous. The former had a low-profile but more lasting effect, and became a negative point of reference for many works confronting revisionist historiography.especially the 2012 volume En el combate por la historia, edited by Angel Viñas, see Ealham 2012, pp. 193-194, Peter Anderson, Knowing and Acknowledging Spain’s Dark Civil War Past, [in:] Journal of Contemporary History 52/1 (2017), p. 135 The discussion on revisionism kept escalating and assumed increasingly militant tone. The next milestone was reached when in 2014 Stanley G. Payne published his biography of Franco (co-authored by Jesús Palacios Tapias); at that point some concluded that revisionism was embraced by the world's most distinguished Hispanists.even junior students with no previous scientific contribution do not hesitate to assert that since the late 1990s Payne's "credibility started to decline", that he turned into "almost an apologist of the Franco regime", that his stature "has plummeted from a respectful and significant historian to an almost apologist", and that due to his "propaganda-like work" Payne "has no objectivity"; the MA hopeful then proceeds to lecture Payne and other scholars how a properly written historiographic work should look like, Ascenett Martinez-Lopez, The Spanish Predisposition. Biases within the Historiography and Memory of the Spanish Civil War [MA thesis University of Newcastle], Newcastle 2017, pp. 8 and passim. The thesis was supervised by one of the anti-revisionists, Alejandro Quiroga Since then the debate has reached an unprecedented level and spilled over to global historiography.the debate on revisionism was taken up mostly by British and American scholars, compare contributions of Peter Anderson, Sebastian Balfour, Gerard Blaney Jr., Cathie Carmichael, Chris Ealham, Helen Graham, Stanley G. Payne, Samuel Pierce, Paul Preston, Tim Rees, Michael Richards, Richard A. Robinson, Michael Seidman, Robert Stradling, Nigel Townson and Mary Vincent, see e.g. sections in Journal of Contemporary History or European History Quarterly in issues from 2006 to 2017. Beyond the English-speaking world the topic is barely present though noticed, see especially Fabian Altemöller, Die spanische extreme Rechte zwischen Metapolitik und Politik, Berlin 2017, , and Gabriele Ranzato, Il passato di bronzo: L'eredità della guerra civile nella Spagna democratica, Bari 2014, It is also reflected in 2018 debates related to proposal of a new Ley de Memoria Histórica.for the draft version of the law see here. The authors claim that new regulations are "moral duty" towards victims of the war and Francoism. The opponents claim that the proposal advances "soviet-style regulations". Many revisionist authors (Payne, Martin Rubio, Palacios, Togores, Seidman, Gonzalez Cuevas, Moa) signed a protest letter against the draft, see La Gaceta 15.03.2018, available here
