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Jun 8, 2017 · The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was an astoundingly brutal war. Fueled by a frenzied hate between opposite political spheres, the civil war was filled with torture, executions and all sorts of ugly atrocities on both sides of the conflict.
Apr 29, 2011 · Paul Preston’s lifelong research into the causes, course and legacy of the Spanish Civil War has exposed atrocities and helped commemorate and compensate victims. What was the problem? In February 1936, the left-wing Republicans narrowly won the Spanish general election.
about the mass murders, massacres and atrocities committed by both sides in the course of the Spanish Civil War, and the vengeful and murderous repression unleashed on the activists and supporters of the losing side by the regime estab-lished by the victor in the conflict, General Francisco Franco. As Preston explains
Paul Preston’s lifelong research into the causes, course and legacy of the Spanish Civil War has exposed atrocities and helped commemorate and compensate victims.
Academic and local stories of atrocities in the Spanish Civil War provide a good illustration. In 1936, a rightist military rebel-lion against the Popular Front government of the Second Repub-lic set off a leftist social revolution. In the classical pattern of Spanish insurrection, both military rebellion and social revolution
The anticlerical violence of the Spanish Civil War has received significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, there has been relatively little focus on the iconoclasm, even though the destruction of objects was easily the most common form of anticlerical violence.
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The ‘red terror’ and the Spanish Civil War / Julius Ruiz. pages cm ISBN 978-1-107-05454-7 (hardback) 1. Spain – History – Civil War, 1936–1939 – Atrocities. 2. Madrid (Spain) – History – Siege, 1936–1939. 3. Extrajudicial executions – Spain – History – 20th century. 4. Political persecution – Spain – History – 20th ...
