LEADER 03538nam 2200505 450 001 9910794822403321 005 20230809233635.0 010 $a1-78284-303-5 010 $a1-78284-301-9 035 $a(CKB)4340000000023085 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4760949 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000023085 100 $a20160620d2017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$a"Paracuellos" $ethe elimination of the "fifth column" in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War /$fJulius Ruiz 210 1$aChicago :$cSussex Academic Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (282 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aSussex studies in Spanish history 311 $a1-84519-787-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"This book examines the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish civil war: The massacre of 2,500 political prisoners by Republican security forces in the villages of Paracuellos and Torrejo?n de Ardoz near Madrid in November/December 1936. The atrocity took place while Santiago Carrillo - later Communist Party leader in the 1970's - was responsible for public order. Although Carrillo played a key role in the transition to democracy after Franco's death in 1975, he passed away at the age of 97 in 2012 still denying any involvement in 'Paracuellos' (the generic term for the massacres). The issue of Carrillo's responsibility has been the focus of much historical research. Julius Ruiz places Paracuellos in the wider context of the 'Red Terror' in Madrid, where a minimum of 8,000 'fascists' were murdered after the failure of military rebellion in July 1936. He rejects both 'revisionist' right-wing writers such as Ce?sar Vidal who cite Paracuellos as evidence that the Republic committed Soviet-style genocide and left-wing historians such as Paul Preston, who in his Spanish Holocaust argues that the massacres were primarily the responsibility of the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. The book argues that Republican actions influenced the Soviets, not the other way round: Paracuellos intensified Stalin's fears of a 'Fifth Column' within the USSR that facilitated the Great Terror of 1937-38. It concludes that the perpetrators were primarily members of the Provincial Committee of Public Investigation (CPIP), a murderous all-leftist revolutionary tribunal created in August 1936, and that its work of eliminating the 'Fifth Column' (an imaginary clandestine Francoist organisation) was supported not just by Carrillo, but also by the Republican government."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aSussex studies in Spanish history. 606 $aParacuellos Massacre, Spain, 1936 606 $aAssassination$zSpain$zMadrid (Region)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical prisoners$zSpain$zMadrid$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical persecution$zSpain$zMadrid$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSpain$xHistory$yCivil War, 1936-1939$xAtrocities 607 $aMadrid (Spain)$xHistory$ySiege, 1936-1939 615 0$aParacuellos Massacre, Spain, 1936. 615 0$aAssassination$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical prisoners$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical persecution$xHistory 676 $a946.081/4 700 $aRuiz$b Julius$f1973-$01476370 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794822403321 996 $a"Paracuellos"$93690980 997 $aUNINA