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Author : Jing Zhao
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557170555
Author : Danny Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351664738
This book analyses the processes of revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish civil war. It focuses on the radical anarchists who sought to advance the revolutionary agenda. Their activity came into conflict with the leaders of the libertarian organisations committed to the reconstruction of the Republican state following its near collapse in July 1936. This process implied participation not only in the organs of governance but also in the ideological reconstitution of the Republic as a patriarchal and national entity. Using original sources, the book shows that the opposition to this process was both broader and more ideologically consistent than has hitherto been assumed, and that, in spite of its heterogeneity, it united around a common revolutionary programme. This resistance to state reconstruction was informed by the essential insight of anarchism: that the function and purpose of the modern state cannot be transformed from within. By situating the struggles of the radical anarchists within the contested process of state reconstruction, the book affirms the continued relevance of this insight to the study of the Spanish revolution.
Author : Vernon Richards
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629636641
Lessons of the Spanish Revolution examines the many ways in which Spain’s revolutionary movement contributed to its own defeat. Was it too weak to carry through the revolution? To what extent was the purchase of arms and raw materials from outside sources dependent upon the appearance of a constitutional government inside Republican Spain? What chances had an improvised army of guerrillas against a trained fighting force? These were some of the practical problems facing the revolutionary movement and its leaders. But in seeking to solve these problems, the anarchists and revolutionary syndicalists were also confronted with other fundamental questions. Could they collaborate with political parties and reformist unions? Given the circumstances, was one form of government to be supported against another? Should the revolutionary impetus of the first days of resistance be halted in the interests of the armed struggle against Franco or be allowed to develop as far as the workers were prepared to take it? Was the situation such that the social revolution could triumph and, if not, what was to be the role of the revolutionary workers? Originally written as a series of weekly articles in the 1950s and expanded, republished, and translated into many languages over the years, Vernon Richards’s analysis remains essential reading for all those interested in revolutionary praxis.
Author : Morris Brodie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000051520
Between 1936 and 1939, the Spanish Civil War showcased anarchism to the world. News of the revolution in Spain energised a moribund international anarchist movement, and activists from across the globe flocked to Spain to fight against fascism and build the revolution behind the front lines. Those that stayed at home set up groups and newspapers to send money, weapons and solidarity to their Spanish comrades. This book charts this little-known phenomenon through a transnational case study of anarchists from Britain, Ireland and the United States, using a thematic approach to place their efforts in the wider context of the civil war, the anarchist movement and the international left.
Author : Robert Jackson Alexander
Publisher : Janus Publishing Company Lim
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9781857564129
A comprehensive view of the anarchists' role in Spain from 1936 to 1939, both during the conflict and in their unique social and economic experiments behind the lines. The author examines the part anarchists played in the defence of Madrid, as well as life in the rural and urban collectives.
Author : Robert J. Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 1857564006
Author : Gaston Leval
Publisher : Freedom
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1629634476
Gaston Leval's study brings together two aspects that are generally difficult to unite--analysis and testimony. He visited the towns and villages of revolutionary Spain where people had opted to live a libertarian communist lifestyle almost without precedent in history, collectivizing the land, factories, and social services. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution demonstrates clearly that the working class are perfectly capable of running farms, factories, workshops, and health and public services without bosses or managers. It proves that anarchist methods of organizing, with decisions made from the bottom up, can work effectively in large-scale industry, involving the coordination of many thousands of workers in many hundreds of places of work across numerous cities and towns, as well as broad rural areas. Leval's history of anarchy in action also gives insight into the creative and constructive power of ordinary people. The Spanish working class not only kept production going throughout the war, but in many cases managed to achieve increases in output. They improved working conditions and created new techniques. They created, out of nothing, an arms industry without which the war against fascism could not have been fought. The revolution also showed that without the competition bred by capitalism, industry can be run in a much more rational manner. Finally it demonstrated how an organized working class has the power to transform society.
Author : Stuart Christie
Publisher : ChristieBooks.com
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781901172065
At last. A serious examination of the legendary FAI. And hence, by necessity, a history and analysis of the organised anarchist movement in Spain, and its relationship with the wider labor movement. By far the best book on the subject, Christie is ruthless in his examination - from an anarchist perspective - of the theory, and practice of this loose-knit group of anarchist militants. Required reading for everyone who not only wants to understand the history of Spanish anarchism, but for those that might want to see some viable form of anarchist organisation in the 21st century.
Author : Abel Paz
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849350648
A passionate history of fighting against all odds—the legendary war against fascism and capitalism in Spain.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786257120869
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet-with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes-in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death. Book Summary: Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) and-when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937-as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was declared an illegal organisation, and Orwell was consequently forced to flee. Having arrived in Barcelona on 26 December 1936, Orwell told John McNair, the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) representative there, that he had "come to Spain to join the militia to fight against Fascism." He also told McNair that "he would like to write about the situation and endeavour to stir working class opinion in Britain and France." McNair took him to the POUM barracks, where Orwell immediately enlisted. "Orwell did not know that two months before he arrived in Spain, the [Soviet law enforcement agency] NKVD's resident in Spain, Aleksandr Orlov, had assured NKVD Headquarters, 'the Trotskyist organisation POUM can easily be liquidated'-by those, the Communists, whom Orwell took to be allies in the fight against Franco."
Author : Julián Casanova
Publisher : Routledge/Canada Blanch Studie
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0415758637
The Spanish Civil War became the setting for the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution as well as being, for many outsiders, the place of armed conflict between the forces of democracy and fascism. This book is a path-breaking synthesis of political, social and cultural history concerning the anarchist revolution during the Spanish Civil War by Spain's leading historian of the Civil War.
Author : Eloy Andrés Motos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520727178
Fundamental book on the history of Spain, if you want to know in depth the causes pointed out by some investigators on the causes that triggered the Spanish Civil War, at least from the point of view of the experts who point out that this conflict had fundamentally social.The history of the war is very varied, highlighting the fiery defense of its interests on the part of both the upper and lower social classes, although other key factors in understanding the conflict, such as Recurrent interventionism of the army. This is because I have considered it of greater interest to study the elements related to the most disadvantaged classes of Spain at that time, putting special interest in the South of Spain (especially Andalusia).For this new edition I have corrected the grammatical and orthographic errors that characterized up until now my book dedicated to the study of anarchism in Spain from its earliest years, in the form of organized workers' struggle.
Author : Julián Casanova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139490573
The Spanish Civil War has gone down in history for the horrific violence that it generated. The climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy was utterly transformed just five years later by a cruel and destructive civil war. Here Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, offers a magisterial new account of this critical period in Spanish history. He exposes the ways in which the Republic brought into the open simmering tensions between Catholics and hardline anticlericalists, bosses and workers, Church and State, order and revolution. In 1936 these conflicts tipped over into the sacas, paseos and mass killings which are still passionately debated today. The book also explores the decisive role of the international instability of the 1930s in the duration and outcome of the conflict. Franco's victory was in the end a victory for Hitler and Mussolini and for dictatorship over democracy.
Author : Chris Ealham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134423408
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 : Robert Jackson Alexander
Publisher : Janus Publishing Company Lim
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 9781857564006
Re-examines the role of the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, from their participation in the military to the management of substantial segments of the Spanish economy.
