The Spanish Revolution

The Spanish Revolution
Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1970
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393098853

A study of the social and political tensions that culminated in the Civil War in Spain.

Durruti in the Spanish Revolution

Durruti in the Spanish Revolution
Author: Abel Paz
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 818
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781904859505

A political biography, history of of a revolutionary era, and nonstop adventure story across three continents.

Lessons of the Spanish Revolution

Lessons of the Spanish Revolution
Author: Vernon Richards
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1629636649

Lessons of the Spanish Revolution examines the many ways in which Spain’s revolutionary movement contributed to its own defeat. Was it too weak to carry through the revolution? To what extent was the purchase of arms and raw materials from outside sources dependent upon the appearance of a constitutional government inside Republican Spain? What chances had an improvised army of guerrillas against a trained fighting force? These were some of the practical problems facing the revolutionary movement and its leaders. But in seeking to solve these problems, the anarchists and revolutionary syndicalists were also confronted with other fundamental questions. Could they collaborate with political parties and reformist unions? Given the circumstances, was one form of government to be supported against another? Should the revolutionary impetus of the first days of resistance be halted in the interests of the armed struggle against Franco or be allowed to develop as far as the workers were prepared to take it? Was the situation such that the social revolution could triumph and, if not, what was to be the role of the revolutionary workers? Originally written as a series of weekly articles in the 1950s and expanded, republished, and translated into many languages over the years, Vernon Richards’s analysis remains essential reading for all those interested in revolutionary praxis.

Collectives in the Spanish Revolution

Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
Author: Gaston Leval
Publisher: Freedom
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781629634470

Gaston Leval's study brings together two aspects that are generally difficult to unite--analysis and testimony. He visited the towns and villages of revolutionary Spain where people had opted to live a libertarian communist lifestyle almost without precedent in history, collectivizing the land, factories, and social services. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution demonstrates clearly that the working class are perfectly capable of running farms, factories, workshops, and health and public services without bosses or managers. It proves that anarchist methods of organizing, with decisions made from the bottom up, can work effectively in large-scale industry, involving the coordination of many thousands of workers in many hundreds of places of work across numerous cities and towns, as well as broad rural areas. Leval's history of anarchy in action also gives insight into the creative and constructive power of ordinary people. The Spanish working class not only kept production going throughout the war, but in many cases managed to achieve increases in output. They improved working conditions and created new techniques. They created, out of nothing, an arms industry without which the war against fascism could not have been fought. The revolution also showed that without the competition bred by capitalism, industry can be run in a much more rational manner. Finally it demonstrated how an organized working class has the power to transform society.

The Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War
Author: Sheelagh M. Ellwood
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780631166177

The Spanish Civil War (1939-1939) was one of the bloodiest internecine conflicts of the modern era, resulting in a repressive and brutal military dictatorship which lasted for almost forty years. Starting with an account of the background to the wat, Sheelagh Ellwood traces the history of the Second Republic (1931-1936), culminating in the electoral victory of the Popular Front in 1936. The author then charts analyses the dramatic chain of events of the Civil War: the army uprising in Morocco in July 1936, the Nationalist advances in southern northwestern Spain, the protracted resistance of Catalonia and Madrid, and the final victory of Franco′s forces in the spring of 1939.

Origins of the Spanish Revolution

Origins of the Spanish Revolution
Author: Juan Tusquets
Publisher: Uthwita Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2023-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1959601016

This book covers the increasing influence exerted on Spain by Freemasonry, international high finance, and rootless cosmopolitans. Written from a devoutly Catholic perspective, all students of this era will find something worthwhile in this volume. The translator has added extensive footnotes to explain obscure persons and distant events.

CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 1

CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 1
Author: José Peirats
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1604865970

The CNT in the Spanish Revolution is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when the so-called ‘Generation of ’36’, Peirats’ own generation, rose up against the oppressive structures of Spanish society. It is also a history of a revolution that failed, crushed in the jaws of its enemies on both the reformist left and the reactionary right. José Peirats’ account is effectively the official CNT history of the war, passionate, partisan but, above all, intelligent. Its huge sweeping canvas covers all areas of the anarchist experience—the spontaneous militias, the revolutionary collectives, the moral dilemmas occasioned by the clash of revolutionary ideals and the stark reality of the war effort against Franco and his German Nazi and Italian Fascist allies. This new edition is carefully indexed in a way that converts the work into a usable tool for historians and makes it much easier for the general reader to dip in with greater purpose and pleasure.

The CNT in the Spanish Revolution

The CNT in the Spanish Revolution
Author: José Peirats
Publisher: ChristieBooks.com
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2001
Genre: Labor unions
ISBN: 1873976240

The author considers the role of anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists in the Spanish Civil war.

Transatlantic Anarchism during the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939

Transatlantic Anarchism during the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939
Author: Morris Brodie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000051528

Between 1936 and 1939, the Spanish Civil War showcased anarchism to the world. News of the revolution in Spain energised a moribund international anarchist movement, and activists from across the globe flocked to Spain to fight against fascism and build the revolution behind the front lines. Those that stayed at home set up groups and newspapers to send money, weapons and solidarity to their Spanish comrades. This book charts this little-known phenomenon through a transnational case study of anarchists from Britain, Ireland and the United States, using a thematic approach to place their efforts in the wider context of the civil war, the anarchist movement and the international left.