The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War by Julius Ruiz - 9781107054547

The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil WarRevolutionary Violence in Madrid\nAuthor(s): Julius Ruiz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107054547, 978-1107054547\nSynopsis\nThis book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War [tel]: the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudicially 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 on a wealth of scholarship and archival sources, challenges the common view that executions were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'. Its focus is on Madrid, which witnessed at least 8,000 executions in 1936. It shows that the terror was organized and was carried out with th.