ABSTRACT

This classic text is made newly available in a substantially revised and updated second edition.

chapter |6 pages

PROLOGUE

chapter 2|36 pages

BUILDING BARRICADES AGAINST REFORM

The legalist Right, 1931–3

chapter 3|46 pages

SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CONFLICT

The PSOE in power, 1931–3

chapter 4|41 pages

THE POLITICS OF REPRISAL

The CEDA, the PSOE and the polarisation of 1934

chapter 5|19 pages

A BLUFF CALLED

The insurrection of 1934

chapter 6|31 pages

THE LEGAL ROAD TO THE CORPORATE STATE

The CEDA in power, 1934–5

chapter 7|28 pages

SOCIALISM UNDER STRESS

Repression, radicalisation and the Popular Front

chapter 8|37 pages

THE ABANDONMENT OF LEGALISM

The PSOE, the CEDA and the coming of war in 1936