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Durruti in the Spanish revolution / Abel Paz ; afterword by José Luis Gutiérrez Molina ; translated by Chuck Morse.
Van Pelt Library DP264.D87 P3913 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paz, Abel.
- Standardized Title:
- Durruti en la revolución española. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Durruti, Buenaventura, 1896-1936.
- Durruti, Buenaventura.
- Spain. Ejército--Biography.
- Spain.
- Spain. Ejército.
- Anarchists--Spain--Biography.
- Anarchists.
- Soldiers--Spain--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 795 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : AK, 2007.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- In this new and unabridged translation of the definitive biography of Spanish revolutionary and military strategist, Buenaventura Durruti, Abel Paz has given us much more than an account of a single man's life. Durruti in the Spanish Revolution is as much the chronicle of an entire nation and of a tumultuous historical era. Paz seamlessly weaves intimate biographical details of Durruti's life-his progression from factory worker and father to bank robber, political exile and, eventually, revolutionary leader-with extensive historical background, behind-the-scenes governmental intrigue, and blow-by-blow accounts of major battles and urban guerrilla warfare. Written with a thorough and sympathetic understanding of the anarchist ideals that motivated Durruti, this is an amazing and exhaustive study of an incredible man and his life-long fight against totalitarianism in both its capitalist and Stalinist forms. An eye-witness to crucial events of the time, Paz has achieved an all-too-rare feat, providing a page-turning adventure story that is also a detailed and absolutely indispensable historical document.
- Contents:
- First part The rebel (1896-1931)
- Between the Cross and the Hammer 3
- August 1917 10
- From Exile to Anarchism 14
- Los Justicieros 19
- Confronting Government Terror 23
- Zaragoza, 1922 28
- Los Solidarios 34
- Jose Regueral and Cardinal Soldevila 38
- Toward the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship 47
- The Revolutionary Center of Paris 57
- Guerrillas in Latin America 69
- From Simon Radowitzky to Boris Wladimirovich 77
- Los Errantes in Buenos Aires in 1925 86
- Toward Paris: 1926 93
- The Plot Against Alfonso XIII 99
- The International Anarchist Defense Committee 107
- The Anarcho-Communist Union and the Poincare Government 111
- The Anti-parliamentarianism of Louis Lecoin 118
- Emilienne, Berthe, and Nestor Makhno 124
- Lyon, and in Prison Again 130
- Clandestine in Europe 137
- The Fall of Primo de Rivera 145
- The Murder of Fermin Galan 149
- "Viva Macia! Death to Cambo!" 159
- The New Government and Its Political Program 163
- Second part The militant (1931-1936)
- April 14, 1931 193
- Before May 1: The Forces in Play 200
- May 1, 1931 207
- The Nosotros Group Faces the CNT and the Republic 215
- The FAI and the CNT Meet 223
- The Republic's Social Policy and the CNT 230
- In the Middle of a Storm Without a Compass 237
- Durruti and Garcia Oliver Respond to "The Thirty" 245
- Two Paradoxical Processes: Alfonso XIII and the Gijon Bank 252
- The Insurrection in Alto Llobregat 261
- The Steamship Buenos Aires 266
- Guinea - Fernando Poo - The Canaries 271
- Split in the CNT 281
- The Insurrectional Cycle 289
- Prisoner in El Puerto de Santa Maria 298
- From Electoral Strike to Insurrection 308
- Socialism, Absent in December 1933 321
- The General Strike in Zaragoza 330
- A Historic Meeting Between the CNT and Companys 336
- From the Damm Boycott to the Lockup 341
- October 6 in Barcelona: Against Whom? 349
- The Asturian Commune 355
- "Peace and Order Reign in Asturias" 362
- "Banditry, No; Collective Expropriation, yes!" 366
- Toward the "Popular Front" 372
- The CNT Judges Durruti 377
- February 16, 1936 385
- The Fourth Congress of the CNT 393
- The Long Wait for July 19, 1936 398
- Third part The revolutionary (July 19 to November 20, 1936)
- Barcelona in Flames 431
- General Goded Surrenders 438
- The Death of Ascaso 445
- July 20 450
- Lluis Companys Confronts the CNT and the CNT Confronts Itself 457
- The Central Committee of Anti-Fascist Militias of Catalonia 463
- The Durruti-Garcia Oliver Offensive 473
- The Durruti Column 482
- "The Clandestine Revolution" 493
- Koltsov Visits the Durruti Column 503
- Largo Caballero, Reconstructing the Republican State 511
- Garcia Oliver, Largo Caballero, and the Problem of Morocco 517
- Antonov Ovssenko and Garcia Oliver 525
- The Spanish Gold's Road to Russia 531
- The Libertarian Confederation of Aragon 540
- Stalin's Shadow Over Spain 549
- "Viva Madrid Without Government!" 562
- The Crossing of the Manzanares River 570
- The Durruti Column in Madrid 577
- November 19, 1936 589
- Durruti Kills Durruti 597
- Durruti's Funeral 603
- Fourth part The deaths of Durruti
- The First Versions 639
- Fact or Fiction? 650
- Contradictions and Fabrications in the Presented Versions 661
- Durruti's Second Death, or his Political Assassination 671
- The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Search for Durruti's Body 678.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 739-748) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 190485950X
- 9781904859505
- OCLC:
- 72151499
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