The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid

by Julius Ruiz

Book Overview

This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): the "Red Terror." Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudically executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of "fascists" seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters as fighting a war for democracy. This study, based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107682932
• ISBN13: 9781107682931
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"