Product Description

A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #638525 in Books
• Published on: 1995-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Back Cover
Although twentieth-century Spain has been dominated by the forces of the Right, historians have tended to concentrate their attentions on the Spanish Left. The Politics of Revenge redresses this balance with a disturbing interpretation of how fascists and militarists combined to overthrow democracy in Spain in the 1930s, maintained a cruel and corrupt dictatorship until the 1970s and then sought by urban terror and military conspiracy to prevent the transition to democracy. Paul Preston's immensely readable study focuses on the army officers and Falangists who advocated and practised political violence. Its provocative interpretation of the Spanish Right constitutes an original vision of a ruthless political scene. The book will be invaluable to students of twentieth-century Spanish and European history, and will also be of considerable use to military historians and sociologists.