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Author : Gabriel Jackson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400820184

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Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 by Gabriel Jackson Pdf

At the time of its occurrence, the Spanish Civil War epitomized for the Western world the confrontation of democracy, fascism, and communism. An entire generation of Englishmen and Americans felt a deeper emotional involvement in that war than in any other world event of their lifetimes, including the Second World War. On the Continent, its "lessons," as interpreted by participants of many nationalities, have played an important role in the politics of both Western Europe and the People's Democracies. Everywhere in the Western world, readers of history have noted parallels between the Spanish Republic of 1931 and the revolutionary governments which existed in France and Central Europe during the year 1848. The Austrian revolt of October 1934, reminded participants and observers alike of the Paris Commune of 1871, and even the most politically unsophisticated observers could see in the Spain of 1936 all the ideological and class conflicts which had characterized revolutionary France of 1789 and revolutionary Russia of 1917. It is not surprising, therefore, that the worthwhile books on the Spanish Civil War have almost all emphasized its international ramifications and have discussed its political crises entirely in the vocabulary of the French and Russian revolutions. Relatively few of the foreign participants realized that the Civil War had arisen out of specifically Spanish circumstances. Few of them knew the history of the Second Spanish Republic, which for five years prior to the war had been grappling with the problems of what we now call an "underdeveloped nation." In Spanish Republic and the Civil War, Gabriel Jackson expounds the history of the Second Republic and the Civil War primarily as seen from within Spain.

Author : Santos Juliá
Publisher : Siglo XXI Ediciones
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039976456

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Madrid, 1931-1934 by Santos Juliá Pdf

A los trabajos que sobre la 11 República española ha publicado Santos Juliá se añade ahora este libro que obtuvo el premio “Ortega y Gasset” Villa de Madrid (1982). En él se intenta reconstruir minuciosamente el proceso y los determinantes que convirtieron la fiesta popular con que Madrid celebró la instauración de la República en el abierto enfrentamiento de clases que caracterizó la vida madrileña durante el invierno de 1933-34. A la par, y por el hecho de reconstruir este proceso en un espacio reducido -una ciudad- aunque sumamente significativo -Madrid-, el autor propone un modelo de interpretación de las luchas de clases urbanas durante la 11 República que, más allá de sus determinantes políticos, tenga en cuenta el propio desarrollo de la ciudad, las transformaciones de su estructura, los procesos migratorios, la crisis que afectó a sus principales industrias, el tipo de sus organizaciones obreras y patronales y, en fin, la dinámica de los discursos y las prácticas de clase. De acuerdo con esos presupuestos metodológicos, el libro concede una atención especial a la fiesta como momento fundante de la República para desembocar, tras el análisis de la cristalización de conciencias enfrentadas de clase, en el estudio de las diferentes formas de lucha de los dos sindicatos obreros y las distintas agrupaciones patronales. El “pueblo todo entero” que aparece como sujeto del primer capítulo del libro se convertirá, durante este corto y denso proceso, en el “frente obrero” y el “bloque patronal” que aparecen radicalmente enfrentados en su última parte. Santos Juliá es profesor del Departamento de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la UNED. Ha publicado, en diversas revistas y obras colectivas, una veintena de artículos sobre temas relacionados con la II República y es autor de La izquierda del, PSOE, 1935-36 y de Orígenes del Frente Popular en España, aparecidos en esta misma editorial.

Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780224534

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The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor Pdf

The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica. Antony Beevor's account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349037568

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The Coming of the Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston Pdf

Author : Chris Ealham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134423392

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Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 by Chris Ealham Pdf

This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the decline of the power of the anarchist movement during the civil war in its identification of the local conditions that made Barcelona into the capital of European anarchism.

Author : Ángel Herrerín
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782846833

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The Road to Anarchy by Ángel Herrerín Pdf

The Road to Anarchy is the result of an exhaustive investigation into the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the democratic years of the Second Republic. By analysing the course of the CNT in terms of its role in the labour conflict and the internal life and approach of the organisation (its ideology, its practice, its internal conflicts, the role of the individual and the weight of history) this book dismantles the long-held view that the CNT orchestrated three insurrections against the Republic. Key is analysis not only of the violence of the anarchists, but also that of the state. Two crucial themes emerge: the political struggle within the organisation, and its involvement in the revolution of October 1934 and in the events of the spring of 1936. Ángel Herrerín investigates the controversial relations of the anarchists with other political formations, such as the republicans, the socialists, Communists and Catalans, with whom the anarchists fought on the republican side during the Civil War. Special attention is paid to the crucial relationship with the socialist trade unions, the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), as this evolved from one of competition for trade-union dominance to the acceptance of anarcho-syndicalist practices by the socialists and collaboration between the two organisations. The book is based on wide-ranging archival research, including the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the National Historical Archive in Spain, the Foreign Office Archives in France and other national archives related to the repression of the CNT, such as those of the Army and Civil Guard in Spain. The study of the CNT in this timeframe is long overdue; the last similar study was undertaken by the US Democratic Congressman John Brademas in the 1950s, a renowned scholar of Spains social revolution.

Author : Julius Ruiz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191639265

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Franco's Justice by Julius Ruiz Pdf

Madrid became one of the key symbols of Republican resistance to General Franco during the Spanish Civil War following the Nationalists' failure to take the city in the winter of 1936-7. Yet despite the defiant cries of 'No pasarán', they did eventually pass on 28 March 1939. This book examines the consequences in Madrid of Franco's unconditional victory in the Spanish Civil War. Using recently available archival material, this study shows how the punishment of the vanquished was based on a cruel irony - Republicans, not the military rebels of July 1936, were held responsible for the fratricidal conflict. Military tribunals handed out sentences for the crime of 'military rebellion'; mere passivity towards the Nationalists before 1939 was not only made a civil offence under the Law of Political Responsibilities but could cause dismissal from work; and freemasons and Communists, specifically blamed for the Civil War, were criminalized by decree in March 1940. However, contrary to much that has been written on the subject, the post-war Francoist repression was not exterminatory. Genocide did not take place in post-war Madrid. While a minimum of 3113 judicial executions took place between 1939 and 1944, death sentences were largely based on accusations of participation in 'blood crimes' that occured in Madrid in 1936. Moreover, and unlike most other accounts of the Francoist political violence, this book is concerned with the question of when and why mass repression came to an end. It shows that the sheer numbers of cases opened against Republican 'rebels', and the use of complex pre-war bureaucratic procedures to process them, produced a crisis that was only resolved by decisions taken by the Franco regime in 1940-1 to abandon much of the repressive system. By 1944, mass repression had come to an end.

Author : Helen Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 052145932X

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The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939 by Helen Graham Pdf

This book is a comprehensive 2002 analysis of the Spanish left during the civil war of 1936-9.

Author : Julius Ruiz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054547

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

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

Author : Graham Kelsey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0792302753

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Anarchosyndicalism, Libertarian Communism and the State by Graham Kelsey Pdf

Author : Silvina Schammah Gesser
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782842415

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Madrid's Forgotten Avante-Garde by Silvina Schammah Gesser Pdf

Explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarised Spanish society prior to the Civil War. This title exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards.

Author : Stanley G. Payne
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299110734

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The Franco Regime, 1936–1975 by Stanley G. Payne Pdf

The history of modern Spain is dominated by the figure of Francisco Franco, who presided over one of the longest authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Between 1936 and the end of the regime in 1975, Franco’s Spain passed through several distinct phases of political, institutional, and economic development, moving from the original semi-fascist regime of 1936–45 to become the Catholic corporatist “organic democracy” under the monarchy from 1945 to 1957. Distinguished historian Stanley G. Payne offers deep insight into the career of this complex and formidable figure and the enormous changes that shaped Spanish history during his regime.

Author : Gerard Alexander
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0801439477

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The Sources of Democratic Consolidation by Gerard Alexander Pdf

"Alexander makes a highly accessible rationalist argument about the conditions under which such commitments emerge, arguing that powerful sectors abandon options for overthrowing democratic rules only when they predict low risks in democracy. The author's argument parallels established claims about the predictability that is essential to the development of modern capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1517 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230270640

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The Statesman's Year-Book by M. Epstein Pdf

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Author : Colin M. Winston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400858095

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Workers and the Right in Spain, 1900-1936 by Colin M. Winston Pdf

Colin Winston traces the Libres' emergence following the collapse of Catholic syndicalism in Catalonia and shows how, in the period up to the Civil War, they moved from radical Carlism to a form of proletarian fascism. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.