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The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939

By Helen Graham

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
052145932X, 9780521459327
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
86 MB (90090034 bytes)
Edition
Illustrated
Pages
506\508
Time added
2021-06-30 06:41:27

Description

This 2002 book is a comprehensive analysis of the forces of the Spanish left - interpreted broadly - during the civil war of 1936–9, and the first of its kind for more than thirty years. It argues two crucial propositions. First, that the wartime responses (and limitations) of the Spanish left - republicans, socialists, communists and anarcho-syndicalists - can be understood only in relation to their pre-war experiences, world views, organisational structures and the wider Spanish context of acute uneven development which had moulded their organisations over previous decades. Second, that the overarching influence that shaped the evolution of the Republic between 1936 and 1939 was the war itself: the book explores the complex, cumulative effects of a civil war fought under the brutally destabilising conditions of an international arms embargo.

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