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Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in Spain - The Valencian Anarchist Movement, 1918-1936 (Paperback)
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Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in Spain - The Valencian Anarchist Movement, 1918-1936 (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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Valencia has traditionally been seen as somewhat exceptional within
Spain: a prosperous, agricultural export-oriented economy dominated
by small- and medium-sized farmers. This tranquil image of Levante
feliz contrasts sharply with those of rebellious, proletarian
Barcelona, or impoverished, feudal Andalusia, with which the CNT
and the Spanish anarchist movement is most closely associated.
However, this new study shows that Valencia in the 1920s and 1930s
was anything but tranquil. The vertiginous growth of the CNT
between 1918 and 1920 led to the province being a major target of
government repression. The situation there was considered by one
Interior Minister as more worrying than in Barcelona. Later, in the
1930s, urban Valencia became the focus of a fierce struggle between
hard-line revolutionaries linked to the anarchist FAI and more
moderate trade unions, whilst numerous local insurrections broke
out in rural areas of the province. Eventually, these two factions
would form an uneasy truce in time to lead the Valencian left in
the battle to overcome the military coup of July 1936 and secure
this vital economic region for the Republican side. In providing
the first English-language study of this important movement, Dr
Purkiss fills a significant gap in the historiography of the
Spanish left. Drawing on a wide range of previously underused
primary sources, he shows that not only was Valencia a hugely
important source of anarchist support, but that the local movement
was far more radical than has previously been thought. He thus
provides a vital insight into the origins of the revolutionary and
anti-clerical violence which swept the province in the early months
of Civil War, introducing us to the 'expropriators' and 'men of
action' whose activities terrified bourgeois Valencia in the 1930s.
Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for
Contemporary Spanish Studies.
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