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Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780299136741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPayne's study places Spain's Second Republic within the historical framework of Spanish liberalism, and the rapid modernisation of inter-war Europe. He aims to present a consistent and detailed interpretation, demonstrating striking parallels to the German Weimar Republic.
Author: Julián Casanova
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07-29
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139490575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: George Richard Esenwein
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Preston
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780416357202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Manuel Álvarez Tardío
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1836242271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in modern European history. This book analyses the main obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Spain and debates the principal stereotypes of the traditional historiography of both left and right.
Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780300110654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the short but crucial period that led to the collapse of the Spanish Republic and set the stage for the ensuing civil war. Stanley G. Payne, an internationally known scholar of modern Spanish history, details the political shifts that occurred from 1933 to 1936 and examines the actions and inactions of key actors during these years. Using their own memoirs, speeches, and declarations, he challenges previous perceptions of various major players, including President Alcalá Zamora. The breakdown of political coalitions and the internal rifts between Spain’s bourgeois and labor classes sparked many instances of violent dissent in the mid-1930s. The book addresses the election of 1933 and the destabilizing insurrection that followed, Alcalá Zamora's failed attempts to control the major parties, and the backlash that resulted. The alliances of the socialist left with communism and the right with fascism are also explored, as is the role of forces outside Spain in spurring the violence that eventually exploded into war.
Author: Pierre Broué
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931859516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn outstanding history that shows how a promising workers' movement ended in a fascist victory.
Author: Shirley Mangini
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780300058161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe discusses the factors that provoked the war and how they affected Spanish women - both the "visible" women who during the turbulent 1920s and 1930s tried to become part of mainstream politics and the "invisible" women who came to the fore during the revolutionary years of the Second Spanish Republic from 1931 to 1936 and became activists in the protest against the military insurrection of 1936.
Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0300130783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: William Loren Katz
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2013-05-15
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1620329018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Few Lincolns had any military training. More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle. Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites. The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander. William Loren Katz and the late Marc Crawford twice traveled with the Brigade to Spain in the 1980s, interviewed surviving Lincolns on old battlefields, and obtained never-before-published documents and photographs for this book.
