The Spanish Republic at War 1936 1939

ISBN-13: 9780521459327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 506 str.

Helen Graham

Opis

This new analysis of the forces of the Spanish Leftist movement during the Civil War of 1936-9 makes two crucial propositions. It claims that the wartime responses and limitations of the movement can be understood only in relationship to its pre-war experiences, world views, organizational structures and the wider cultural context. It also asserts that the most significant influence on the evolution of the Republic between 1936 and 1939 was the war itself.

Recenzje

'Helen Graham's study constituted a comprehensive analysis and detailed description of Republican politics during the war period … her book may well be considered as a kind of updated synthesis, which will be extremely useful for anyone interested in the Civil War.' Contemporary European History

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: A fractured left: the impact of uneven development 1898–1930; 1. The challenge of mass political mobilisation 1931–6; 2. Against the state: military rebellion, political fragmentation, popular resistance and repression, 18 July–4 September 1936; 3. Building the war effort, building the state for total war, September 1936–February 1937; 4. Challenges to the centralising republic: revolutionary and liberal particularisms in Catalonia, Aragon and the Basque country; 5. The Barcelona May Days and their consequences, February–August 1937; 6. Negrín's war on three fronts; 7. The collapse of the Republican home front; Glossary; Bibliography.