Introduction

Abstract

The Introduction to the second volume of Agonía Republicana briefly recalls some of the major factors that contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and introduces the contributions that throw even more light on the era.

Key word:

• Spanish Civil War

Notes

1 Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Autobiografía del general Franco (Barcelona: Planeta, 1992), 663.

2 For convenience, the generic terms ‘conservative’, ‘liberal’, ‘radical’, ‘socialist’, ‘communist’, ‘anarchist’ and so on are intended to stand for their rainbow of realizations, manifestations, evolutions, developments and sub-divided factions.

3 The First International (International Working Men's Association) was to manifest these divisions from its founding in London in 1864 until its dissolution in 1876. The most notable dispute, between Marx and Bakunin, was to result in the violent clash of socialists/communists and anarchists/anarcho-syndicalists in 1930s Spain.

4 For a comprehensive discussion of this phenomenon in the 1930s see Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012).

5 Some thirty-six parties were represented at the parliamentary elections in June that year.

6 Emma Goldman, My Further Disillusionment in Russia (Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924), n. p at <http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_archives/goldman/further/preface.html>.

7 See Daniel Pastor García and Antonio R. Celada, ‘The Victors Write History, the Vanquished Literature: Myth, Distortion and Truth in the XV Brigade’, in ‘Agonía republicana’: Living the Death of an Era. Essays on the Spanish Civil War, ed. Susana Bayó Belenguer, Ciaran Cosgrove and James Whiston, BSS, LXXXIX:7–8 (2012), 307–21.

8 See, for example, <http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/No_pardon_for_Spanish_civil_war_helpers.html?cid = 6445388> (accessed 11 August 2013).

9 For an in-depth analysis of the circumstances of Casado's rebellion see Helen Graham, ‘Casado's Ghosts: Demythologizing the End of the Spanish Republic’, in ‘Agonía republicana’: Living the Death of an Era, ed. Bayó Belenguer, Cosgrove and Whiston, 255–78.

10 One of the works studied by Smith here is also the subject of two essays in the BSS November–December 2012 special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Igor Barrenetxea Marañón, ‘Las 13 rosas (2007): el cine como reconstructor de memoria’ and Thomas Deveny, ‘Bio-Pic/Death Story: Emilio Martínez-Lázaro's Las 13 rosas’. See Agonía republicana’: Living the Death of an Era, ed. Bayó Belenguer, Cosgrove and Whiston, 9–22 and 39–48 respectively.

11 Juan Marichal, El secreto de España. Ensayos de historia intelectual y política (Madrid: Taurus, 1995), 267.