Civil war and world war in Europe : Spain, Yugoslavia, and Greece, 1936-1949 / Philip B. Minehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minehan, Philip B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil war--Europe--History--20th century.

Civil war.

Communism--Europe--History--20th century.

Communism.

Europe.

History.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939.

Spain.

Yugoslavia--History--1918-1945.

Yugoslavia.

Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xx, 394 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

This is a comparative history of the Spanish, Yugoslav, and Greek Civil Wars of 1936-1949 from the standpoints of politics, socioeconomic structures, national questions, international conjunctures, and foreign interventions. Minehan builds a historical typology of the overriding problem in each country: class conflict in Spain, a national problem in Yugoslavia, and a problem of political incorporation in Greece. Internationally, the book explores the significance of how each war occurred in one of three successive phases of the power struggle between fascism, liberal capitalism, and Soviet communism. From that shifting nexus of relations between domestic and international conditions, Minehan derives a description and explanation of the conflicts' similarities and differences.

Contents:

Introduction and Historical Background 1

Part 1 PreWar Societies and States

Chapter 1 The Social and Economic Contours of the PreWar Years 23

Chapter 2 Pre-Civil War Politics, Parties, Dictatorships, Militaries, and National Questions 39

Part 2 Societies and States at War: Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece and the International Power Struggles of 1936-1949

Chapter 3 Domestic and International Battlegrounds 91

Chapter 4 The Communist Parties, the British and the Soviet Union in the Early Phases of the Civil Wars 123

Chapter 5 The Decisive Phases 173

Chapter 6 Roads to Victory and Defeat 223

Epilogue: The Agonies of Overcoming and not Overcoming 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-379) and index.

ISBN:

1403972168

OCLC:

62766725

Publisher Number:

9781403972163

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