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Book SynopsisIn War and Revolution in Catalonia, 1936-1939, Pelai Pag s i Blanch analyses the political and military evolution of the events in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War: the street battles that defeated the military rebellion; the social revolution that pervaded all levels of Catalonia's politics, economy and culture; the gradual erosion of workers' power, culminating in the May Events; and Catalonia's eventual fall to Franco's forces. Pag s i Blanch demonstrates the extent to which the war was lost when the Republican leaders, in order to 'unify' the left against fascism.
Table of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. Precursors to War and Revolution in Catalonia 2. The Military Uprising and the Failure of the Rebellion 3. Political Transformations: the Crisis of the Generalitat and the Formation of the Militia-Committees 4. The Formation of the Popular Militias and the Aragon Front 5. Public Order and Political Repression in the Rearguard 6. The Republican Justice-System: From Popular Tribunals to Special Tribunals 7. Social and Economic Transformations 8. The War-Economy and the War-Industries 9. Forming the Unity-Government and the First Political Disagreements 10. The May Events of 1937 11. The Consequences of the May Events 12. The Republican Military-Offensives, Summer 1937 13. The Negrín Government in Barcelona and the Rupture of the Catalan Front 14. The Battle of the Ebro and the Deterioration of Conditions in the Rearguard 15. The Occupation of Catalonia and Losing the War Conclusion: The Historical Significance of the Republic’s Defeat Appendix of Documents: A. ‘The Failure of the Military Insurrection in Barcelona’, La Vanguardia, 22 July 1936 B. Manuel Moragues, ‘The Formation of the Catalan Central Committee of Antifascist Militias’, La Publicitat, 2 August 1936. C. ‘Popular Militias on the Aragon Front’, Crònica diària, 24 July 1936 D. ‘Public Order in the Catalan Rearguard’, Crònica diària, 24 October 1936 E. ‘The Municipalisation of Housing’, La Vanguardia, 19 June 1937 F. The Fatarella Incidents: From the CNT’s Solidaridad Obrera, 26 January 1937 From the UGT’s Las noticias, 28 January 1937 G. The May 1937 Events. From Crònica diària, 3, 4 and 5 May 1937 H. ‘Repression Against the POUM’, letter from jailed members of the POUM I. Francisco Franco and Ramón Serrano Suñer, ‘The Abolition of the Catalan Autonomy Statute’, Boletín Oficial del Estado, 8 April 1938 J. ‘The Battle of the Ebro’, La Humanitat, 30 July 1938 K. ‘Disagreements Between the Generalitat and the Republican Government’, La Vanguardia, 1 October 1938 L. ‘Bidding Farewell to the International Brigades’, La Humanitat, 29 October 1938 M. ‘The Last Armed Resistance’, editorial published in the PSUC daily newspaper, Treball, 21 January 1939 N. Franco occupies Catalonia: Fidel Dávila Arroyo, La Vanguardia, 27 January 1939. Elíseo Álvarez Arenas, La Vanguardia, 28 January 1939 Bibliography Index
