The Spanish Civil War / / Stanley G. Payne [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461792103321
• Autore: Payne Stanley G.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-139-52571-9; 1-107-23405-0; 1-139-53972-8; 1-283-52839-8; 1-139-02615-1; 1-139-53157-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge essential histories
• Disciplina: 946.081
• Soggetti: Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : civil war in twentieth-century Europe -- 1. Modernization and conflict in Spain -- 2. From revolutionary insurrection to popular front -- 3. The breakdown of democracy -- 4. The military insurrection of the eighteenth of July -- 5. The Battle of Madrid: the first turning point -- 6. Revolution -- 7. Terror -- 8. A war of religion -- 9. Franco's counterrevolution -- 10. Foreign intervention and nonintervention -- 11. Soviet policy in Spain, 1936-1939 -- 12. The propaganda and culture war -- 13. A second counterrevolution?: the power struggle in the republican zone -- 14. The decisive northern campaigns of 1937-1938 -- 15. The war at sea and in the air -- 16. Civil wars within a civil war -- 17. The war in perspective -- Conclusion: Costs and consequences: the long dictatorship.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Payne explains the character of the Spanish revolution and the complex web of republican politics, while also examining the development of Franco's counter-revolutionary ; dictatorship. Payne gives attention to the multiple meanings and interpretations of war and examines why the conflict provoked such strong reactions at the time, and long after. The book also explains the military history of the war and its place in the history of military development, the non-intervention policy of the democracies and the role of German, Italian and Soviet intervention, concluding with an analysis of the place of the war in European affairs, in the context of twentieth-century revolutionary civil wars.