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This book recovers the lost history of Spanish socialism during the turbulent years of the Civil War (1936–39). 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 out of the script by concentrating exclusively on the fierce ideological dispute between anarchists and communists. But the key issues of revolution and State power marked all the forces in Republican Spain, none more so than the Socialist movement. As the traditional party of the working class and the only mass party in Spain as late as 1931, PSOE militants were to be found on both sides of the revolutionary/reformist divide which split fatally the Republican forces during the Civil War. The PSOE's disintegration was a function of that of the Republic itself; but the reverse was no less true. The book investigates the responses of organised socialism to the complex issues raised by the conflict, as it charts the PSOE's devastating experience of political power and desperate crisis in a war it could not win.
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History, P.S.O.E. (Political party), Socialism, Spanish Civil War, Politics and government, Socialist partiesPlaces
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Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939
2011, Cambridge University Press
in English
051187796X 9780511877964
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Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511523610 9780511523618
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Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939
1991, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521392578 9780521392570
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-320) and index.
"Based on my doctoral research ... in Oxford and Spain during the 1980s"--P. ix.
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An account of the story of the Spanish socialist movement (Party and trade union) during the crucial years of the Civil War. These vital years determined the long-term future of Spain itself, and the Spanish socialist party (PSOE) was the axis of the Republican war effort.
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