War And Revolution In Catalonia 1936 1939

Author : Pelai Pagès i Blanch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004254275

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War and Revolution in Catalonia, 1936-1939 by Pelai Pagès i Blanch Pdf

In War and Revolution in Catalonia, 1936-1939, Pelai Pagès i Blanch analyses the political and military evolution of the events in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War: the street battles that defeated the military rebellion; the social revolution that pervaded all levels of Catalonia's politics, economy, and culture; the gradual erosion of workers' power, culminating in the May Events; and Catalonia's eventual fall to Franco's forces. Pagès i Blanch demonstrates the extent to which the war was lost when the Republican leaders, in order to ‘unify’ the left against Franco and fascism, turned their backs on the social revolution. This translation of Pagès i Blanch's landmark study is the first full-length monograph in English to focus on Catalonia's experience during the war. English translation of Cataluña en guerra y en revolución, Ediciones Espuela de Plata, 2007.

Author : Pelai Pagès i Blanch,Pelai Pagès
Publisher : Historical Materialism
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Barcelona (Spain)
ISBN : 1608464121

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War and Revolution in Catalonia, 1936-1939 by Pelai Pagès i Blanch,Pelai Pagès Pdf

This translation of a landmark study is the first monograph in English to focus on Catalonia during the Civil War.

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009165567

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Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by James W. Cortada Pdf

"A valuable contribution to the literature on the Spanish civil war. . . . Eminently suitable for academic and large public libraries." Reference Books Bulletin

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134858651

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Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939 by Paul Preston Pdf

This collection of essays constitutes a magnificent monument to recent scholarship on the Second Republic and the Civil War. It is indispensable for a full understanding of the period.' - Raymond Carr

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786257120869

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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Pdf

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 : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012303189

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A City in War by James W. Cortada Pdf

Author : Morris Brodie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000051520

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Transatlantic Anarchism during the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939 by Morris Brodie Pdf

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 : George Richard Esenwein,Adrian Shubert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39015033317150

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Spain at War by George Richard Esenwein,Adrian Shubert Pdf

Author : Gabriel Jackson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Ronald Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006467398

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Blood of Spain by Ronald Fraser Pdf

Author : Danny Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351664738

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Revolution and the State by Danny Evans Pdf

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 : Helen Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Pierre Broué,Émile Témime
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39076005825315

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The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain by Pierre Broué,Émile Témime Pdf

First published in France in 1961 as La Revolution et la guerre d'Espagne,this book explains the major issues of the Spanish Civil War in a remarkably clear and comprehensive fashion. The authors focus on the internal affairs of the Republic and the Anarchist collective experiments in particular. For further description, the book is best served by its critics: "The Broue-Temime work is the best general interpretation available concerning both the revolution of 1936 and the war. It is especially valuable for analysis of the CNT, the POUM, and the anarchists in both the industrial and rural areas of Catalonia. It contains rich chapters on the first days of the war in the large cities and on the May, 1937, struggle in the streets of Barcelona." —Gabriel Jackson, Hispanic American Historical Review "This, by contrast (with the work of Hugh Thomas), is what gives weight to the fine works of Pierre Broue: the effort by which he constructs a Spanish war where events, parties, and man, the motives that guided them, the difficulties they encountered, their feelings, debates, ideas, and sacrifices are arranged and told in order to make them comprehensible." —Jean-Pierre Peter, Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations "Broue has prepared the first half [of the book], dealing with the Spanish background, the revolution, and the first year of the war... [He] gives a particularly good treatment of the origins of the Spanish Communist party. "In the second half of this composite work, Temime has presented a clear, concise, and perceptive account of the military events in the last two years of the war and of the construction of Franco's authoritarian state." —Stanley G. Payne, Journal of Modern History

Author : Chris Ealham,Michael Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1139445529

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The Splintering of Spain by Chris Ealham,Michael Richards Pdf

This 2005 book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the cataclysmic civil war that engulfed Spain from 1936 to 1939. It features specially commissioned articles from leading historians in Spain, Britain and the US which examine the complex interaction of national and local factors, contributing to the shape and course of the war. They argue that the 'splintering of Spain' resulted from the myriad cultural cleavages of society in the 1930s that are investigated here at both local and national levels. Thus, this book tends to see the civil war less as a single great conflict between two easily identifiable sets of ideas, social classes or ways of life than historians have previously done. The Spanish tragedy, at the level of everyday life, was shaped by many tensions, both those that were formally political and those that were to do with people's perceptions and understanding of the society around them.

Author : Franz Borkenau
Publisher : London, Faber
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39015012939529

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The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau Pdf