''Red Terror'' and the Spanish Civil War - Revolutionary Violence in Madrid

"This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): the "Red Terror." Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudically executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of "fascists" seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters as fighting a war for democracy. This study, based on a wealth of scholarship and archival sources, challenges the common view that executions were the work of criminal or anarchist "uncontrollables." Its focus is on Madrid, which witnessed at least 8,000 executions in 1936. It shows that the terror was organized and was carried out with the complicity of thepolice, and argues that terror was seen as integral to the antifascist war effort. Indeed, the elimination of the internal enemy - the "Fifth Column" - was regarded as important as the war on the front line"--

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• Authors: Julius Ruiz, Julius (University of Edinburgh) Ruiz, Ruiz Julius
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2014
• EAN: 9781107054547
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05454-7
• No. of pages: 395
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; European History, Spain, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, c 1930 to c 1939, Modern warfare, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Specific wars and campaigns, 1936–1939 (Spanish Civil War period), War and defence operations, Civil wars