ABSTRACT
Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000 unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed from mass graves and given a dignified burial, and for decades, the history of these victims has also been buried. This volume brings together a range of Spanish and British specialists who offer an original and challenging overview of this violence. Contributors not only examine the mass killings and incarcerations, but also carefully consider how the repression carried out in the government zone during the Civil War - long misrepresented in Francoist accounts - seeped into everyday life. A final section explores ways of facing Spain’s recent violent past.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Rebel Violence
chapter 3|17 pages
Scandal and Diplomacy
part II|46 pages
Violence in the Republican Zone
chapter 4|21 pages
Political Violence in the Republican Zone
chapter 5|23 pages
‘The Civilisation that Is Being Forged Amid the Thunder of the Cannons'
part III|58 pages
Repression and Resistance in the Post-War Period
chapter 7|17 pages
The Struggle Continues
chapter 8|20 pages
The Long Nocturnal March
part IV|33 pages
Facing the Past