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Europe. This shared context offers the key to why the Civil War had such an enormous impact beyond Spain and why a sense of the war’s importance continues to resonate today. The second purpose of this book is thus to examine the historical debates and political polemics to which the war has given rise. For arguing about the Civil War has
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General elections won by the Popular Front Inauguration of Manuel Aza ̃na as president of the Republic Assassination of Jos ́e Calvo Sotelo Military insurrection against Republican gov-ernment Attempt at compromise by abortive government of Mart ́ınez Barrio fails Republican government arms revolutionary worker syndicates, beginning the revolution ...
Carlists CEDA CNT Condor Legion CTV Esquerra Catalana FAI Falange Espa ̃nola FET Izquierda Republicana PCE PNV POUM PSOE PSUC Traditionalist, not mainline, monarchist movement Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rightists (Catholic party) National Confederation of Labor (Anarchosyndicalist trade union confederation) German air and combined arms uni...
Radical Republican Party Centrist, anti-Socialist liberal democratic Renovaci ́on Espa ̃nola Republican Union UGT party Mainline monarchist party Most moderate of the left Republican parties General Union of Labor (Socialist trade union federation)
context of the Spanish Civil War, Alpert (1997) argues that these decision makers treated the war as an internal struggle precipitated by the backwardness of Spanish social and economic conditions. As a consequence, the British, in particular, chose to keep their distance from the conflict.
This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe.
- Stanley G. Payne
- 1982
There are five áreas of interpretation in wich new data from post 1965 publications, or personal political experiences and reflections of my own, have altered some of the opinions I expressed in The Spanish Republic and the Civil War.
The devastating civil war of 1936–9 has long been seen as the defining moment of contemporary Spanish history,forming a vital part of Spain’s social and political inheritance.
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"The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939" is increasingly revealed as an arbitrary subject, perhaps even an artificial historical concept, useful as it is conventional.
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