02174nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139026154 UkCbUP 20180107143414.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110218s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139026154 (ebook) 9781107002265 (hardback) 9780521174701 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda DP269 .P355 2012 946.081 23 Payne, Stanley G., author. The Spanish Civil War / [electronic resource] Stanley G. Payne. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Essential Histories Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe. Stanley Payne explains the character of the Spanish revolution and the complex web of republican politics, while also examining the development of Franco's counter-revolutionary dictatorship. Payne gives attention to the multiple meanings and interpretations of war and examines why the conflict provoked such strong reactions at the time, and long after. The book also explains the military history of the war and its place in the history of military development, the non-intervention policy of the democracies and the role of German, Italian and Soviet intervention, concluding with an analysis of the place of the war in European affairs, in the context of twentieth-century revolutionary civil wars. Print version: 9781107002265 Cambridge Essential Histories. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026154 Cambridge Books Online 236607 236607