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The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War - Revolutionary Violence in Madrid (Paperback)
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The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War - Revolutionary Violence in Madrid (Paperback)
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This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the
Spanish Civil War (1936-9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000
Spaniards were extrajudicially 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 the police, 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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