Routledge/Cañada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Planting the seeds, 1898-1923 -- The arrival of the masses, 1923-1933 -- Sharpening the knives, 1933-1936 -- Rebel terror -- Climbing out of the abyss : the struggle to bring order in loyalist Spain, 1936-1939 -- Franco's juridical monstrosity -- The pozoblanco partido: a case study in grassroots judicial terror -- Denouncing the defeated -- Into the dock -- Under the judicial hammer -- Caught in the web -- Dashing families against the rocks -- Making Francoism from below.
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Challenging the popularly prevalent view that the Franco regime imposed a police state upon a passive Spanish society, the evidence Anderson uncovers here illustrates that local state officials and members of the regime's support base together forged a powerful repressive system that allowed them to wage war on elements of their own society to a greater extent than perhaps even the Nazis managed against their own population.
Francoist military trials.
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Francoism.
Trials (Political crimes and offenses)-- Spain-- History-- 20th century.