Episode
Behind the Insurrections - The Birth of Spanish Fascism, Part 1
1:42:37
Published: Tue Jan 26 2021
Description
In this episode, we discuss the birth of Fascism in Spain and how it led to the first great armed conflict between Fascism and Democracy: the Spanish Civil War. FOOTNOTES: https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Spain-1923-1977-Stanley-Payne/dp/0299165647/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=fascism+in+spain&qid=1611636892&sr=8-1 https://libcom.org/history/spanish-civil-war-osprey-book-collection https://www.marxists.org/archive/bookchin/1985/12/spanish-civil-war.htm https://www.historynet.com/persistent-myths-guernica.htm https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/06/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia-account-spanish-civil-war-wrong https://www.rs21.org.uk/2018/11/22/petain-franco-and-chemical-warfare-in-the-rif/ https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/spanish-legion-viral-tweet-twitter-history https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/22/the-contested-legacy-of-the-anti-fascist-international-brigades https://www.tutor2u.net/history/reference/why-did-the-nationalists-win-the-spanish-civil-war https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii67/articles/ronald-fraser-how-the-republic-was-lost https://limun.org.uk/FCKfiles/File/Spanish_Civil_War_Source_2.pdf Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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