Helen Graham - Socialism & War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis - Paperback Book

Name: Helen Graham - Socialism & War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis - Paperback Book
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Helen Graham

Socialism and WarThe Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 19361939\nAuthor(s): Helen Graham\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521392570, 978-0521392570\nSynopsis\nThis book recovers the lost history of Spanish socialism during the turbulent years of the Civil War [tel]. Just as the energy of the socialist movement had sustained the pre-war Second Republic as an experiment in reform, so too it underwrote the Republican war effort in the crucial years of the conflict which would determine Spain's long-term future. Leading Socialist Party (PSOE) cadres formed the bedrock of the government, while thousands of Party and union militants helped bear the tremendous weight of the war effort. The role of the PSOE in the construction of Republican political unity during the Civil War was pivotal. Yet, paradoxically, previous accounts of wartime Republican politics have virtually written the PSOE o.