Title: The Coming of the Spanish Civil War
Subtitle: Reform, Reaction, and Revolution in the Second Republic, 1931-1936
First published: 1978
Description: The breakdown of democracy in Spain in the 1930s resulted in a torrent of political and military violence. In this thoroughly revised edition of his classic text, Paul Preston provides a deeply disturbing explanation of the democratic collapse, coherently and excitingly outlining the social and economic background. Since the first edition of this book was completed more than fifteen years ago, archives have been opened up, the diaries, letters and memoirs of major protagonists have been published and there have been innumerable studies of the politics of the Republic, of parties, unions, elections and social conflict, national and provincial. This new edition updates the original text as exhaustively as possible to take account of the new material.
Subjects: Causes, History, Politics and government, Right and left (Political science), Socialism, Spain Civil War, 1936-1939, Nonfiction, Social conditions, Socialism in Spain, PSOE, War, Oorzaken, Socialism, spain, Spain, politics and government, Spain, social conditions, Spain, history, civil war, 1936-1939
Places: Spain
Time periods: 1931-1939, Civil War, 1936-1939, 1886-1931, 1886-1939, 20th century, Alfonso XIII, 1886-1931, Republic, 1931-1939
LC classification: DP257 .P648