The Spanish Second Republic revisited : from democratic hopes to the Civil War (1931-1936) / edited by Manuel Álvarez Tardío and Fernando del Rey Reguillo ; Spanish translations by Nick Rider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rey Reguillo, Fernando del, 1960-

Álvarez Tardío, Manuel.

Rider, Nick.

Series:

Sussex studies in Spanish history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Republic, 1931-1939.

Spain.

History.

Spain--Politics and government--1931-1939.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, [2012]

Summary:

Tardío (history of political thought and social and political movements, Rey Juan Carlos U., Spain) and Reguillo (history of political thought and social and political movements, Complutense U., Spain) compile 14 essays that analyze the political history of the Spanish Second Republic and the main obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Spain which led to the Spanish Civil War and 40 years of dictatorship. Spanish, British, US, and Italian historians offer new research and syntheses of conclusions produced by scholars in recent years on the period between 1931 and 1936, aiming to eschew any prejudices and create an open dialogue on the Republic. They emphasize the analysis of politics and the influence of ideological struggles in the debate and conflicts of the period. They place their discussion in the European context, in terms of the period itself and not what occurred afterward, and with the aim of disconnecting history from myths and other biases. They address such topics as whether the Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas was an opportunity or a threat, the centrist appeal under the Republic, how elections were viewed and conducted, the transformation of fascism, the Communist Party, the politics of exclusion at the local level, the perceived necessity for repression, new perspectives on the Civil Guard, and the role of intellectuals in the Republic. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

A critical overview of the Second Spanish Republic / Stanley G. Payne

Could the Second Republic have become a democracy? / Luis Arranz Notario

The socialists and revolution / Jose Manuel Macarro Vera

The CEDA : threat or opportunity? / Manuel Álvarez Tardío

The republican left and the defence of democracy, 1934-1936 / Gabriele Ranzato

A third way? : centrist politics under the Republic / Nigel Townson

The limits of democratization : elections and political culture / Roberto Villa García

The mutation of Falangism, 1934-1936 / José Antonio Parejo Fernández

Revolution or republic? : the Spanish Communist Party / Tim Rees

Policies of exclusion during the Second Republic : a view from the grass roots / Fernando del Rey Reguillo

Old wine in new bottles : the historiography of repression in Spain during and after the Spanish Civil War / Julius Ruiz

New perspectives on the Civil Guard and the Second Republic, 1931-1936 / Gerald Blaney

Intellectuals and the republic / Javier Zamora

On the irrelevance of fascism in Spain / Pedro Carlos González Cuevas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845194598

1845194594

OCLC:

687704383