The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War

The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 399
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ISBN-10 : 9781107054547
ISBN-13 : 1107054540
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War by : Julius Ruiz

This study challenges the common view that extrajudicial executions in Republican Spain in July 1936 were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'.

The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism

The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780300130782
ISBN-13 : 0300130783
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism by : Stanley G. Payne

In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the early 1930s to the end of the civil war in 1939. Drawing on a very broad range of Soviet and Spanish primary sources, including many only recently available, Payne changes our understanding of Soviet and Communist intentions in Spain, of Stalin’s decision to intervene in the Spanish war, of the widely accepted characterization of the conflict as the struggle of fascism against democracy, and of the claim that Spain’s war constituted the opening round of World War II. The author arrives at a new view of the Spanish Civil War and concludes not only that the Democratic Republic had many undemocratic components but also that the position of the Communist party was by no means counterrevolutionary.

The Battle for Spain

The Battle for Spain
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 588
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ISBN-10 : 9781101201206
ISBN-13 : 1101201207
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Battle for Spain by : Antony Beevor

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible book (Spain's #1 bestseller for twelve weeks), provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war-its causes, course, and consequences.

The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 1114
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ISBN-10 : 9780007467228
ISBN-13 : 0007467222
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by : Paul Preston

Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.

The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War

The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 399
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781139993043
ISBN-13 : 1139993046
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War by : Julius Ruiz

This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudicially executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters as fighting a war for democracy. This study, based on a wealth of scholarship and archival sources, challenges the common view that executions were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'. Its focus is on Madrid, which witnessed at least 8,000 executions in 1936. It shows that the terror was organized and was carried out with the complicity of the police, and argues that terror was seen as integral to the antifascist war effort. Indeed, the elimination of the internal enemy - the 'Fifth Column' - was regarded as important as the war on the front line.

The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain

The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1931859515
ISBN-13 : 9781931859516
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain by : Pierre Broué

An outstanding history that shows how a promising workers' movement ended in a fascist victory.

The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War

The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 1316004570
ISBN-13 : 9781316004579
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War by : Post-Doctoral Research Fellow School of History and Classics Julius Ruiz

This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936 1939): the Red Terror. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudically executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of fascists seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters as fighting a war for democracy. This study, based on a wealth of scholarship and archival sources, challenges the common view that executions were the work of criminal or anarchist uncontrollables. Its focus is on Madrid, which witnessed at least 8,000 executions in 1936. It shows that the terror was organized and was carried out with the complicity of the police, and argues that terror was seen as integral to the antifascist war effort. Indeed, the elimination of the internal enemy the Fifth Column was regarded as important as the war on the front line."

The Spanish Civil Wars

The Spanish Civil Wars
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781474229425
ISBN-13 : 1474229425
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Spanish Civil Wars by : Mark Lawrence

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 This book provides a comparative history of the domestic and international nature of Spain's First Carlist War (1833-40) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), as well as the impact of both conflicts. The book demonstrates how and why Spain's struggle for liberty was won in the 1830s only for it to be lost one hundred years later. It shows how both civil wars were world wars in miniature, fought in part by foreign volunteers under the gaze and in the political consciousness of the outside world. Prefaced by a short introduction, The Spanish Civil Wars is arranged into two domestic and international sections, each with three thematic chapters comparing each civil war in detail. The main analytical perspectives are political, social and new military history in nature, but they also explore aspects of gender, culture, nationalism and separatism, economy, religion and, especially, the war in its international context. The book integrates international archival research with the latest scholarship on both subjects and also includes a glossary, a bibliography and several images. It is a key resource tailored to the needs of students and scholars of modern Spain which offers an intriguing and original new perspective on the Spanish Civil War.

Killing Strangers

Killing Strangers
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780192608758
ISBN-13 : 0192608754
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Killing Strangers by : T. K. Wilson

A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city centre becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to 'be in the wrong place at the wrong time'. We accept this contemporary reality - at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head on. It examines how such violence became 'unchained' from inter-personal relationships. It traces the rise of such impersonal violence by examining violence in conjunction with changing social and political realities. In particular, it traces both 'push' and 'pull' - the ability of modern states to force the violence of their challengers into niche forms: and the disturbing new opportunities that technological changes offer to cause mayhem in fresh and original ways. Killing Strangers therefore aims to highlight the very strangeness of contemporary experience when it is viewed against a long-term perspective. Atrocities regularly capture media attention - and just as quickly fade from public view. That is both tragic - and utterly predictable. Deep down we expect no different. And that is why such atrocities must be repeated if our attention is to be re-engaged. Deep down we expect that, too. So Killing Strangers deliberately asks the very simplest of questions. How on earth did we get here?

The Penguin History of Modern Spain

The Penguin History of Modern Spain
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780141984223
ISBN-13 : 0141984228
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Penguin History of Modern Spain by : Nigel Townson

‘The best account in a single volume of Spain since 1898, exemplary for concision and for accuracy in the use of language, as well as for equanimity and generosity of spirit’ Felipe Fernández-Armesto, TLS A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first 'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the country's peculiarity. Generations of historians and readers have been transfixed by its implosion into civil war in the 1930s, seduced by the valiant struggle of the republicans, horrified by the barbarity of the dictatorship which followed. Franco's Spain was seen as an anomaly in the midst of prosperous and permissive post-war Western Europe. But, as Nigel Townson shows in this richly layered and exciting new history, beyond the familiar image, there lies a radically different history of Spain: of a dynamic and progressive society that fits firmly into the narrative of modern Europe. Drawing on over forty years of post-Franco scholarship, The Penguin History of Modern Spain transforms our knowledge of Spain and its politics, society, economics and culture. It interweaves cutting-edge Spanish-led research - never before published in English - and testimonies of peasants, housewives, soldiers, workers, entrepreneurs, feminists and worker-priests, for an original and surprising portrait, which allows us, at last, to discern the country behind the veil of propaganda and romantic myths which still endure today