Arturo Zoffmann Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arturo Zoffmann Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arturo Zoffmann |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUEZ A Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2557-7848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Far from a Popular Movement
During the First World War, Greek society became sharply polarized around the figures of Liberal Party leader Eleftherios Venizelos, who supported intervention on the Allied side, and King Constantine, who favored neutrality. This rift, known as the National Schism, eventually resulted in the country's split in 1916–1917 with the formation of the pro-Allied "National Defense" regime in Thessaloniki while the official government in Athens remained…
«Una injusticia inversa». El jurado popular ante los delitos políticos y sociales en España (1917-1923)
Este artículo analiza la repercusión del juicio por jurado popular en el sistema punitivo español durante 1917-1923. Inspirándose en los planteamientos de Michel Foucault y Bartolomé Clavero, intenta aclarar cuál fue, en la práctica, el rol constitucional de dicha institución tanto en la definición del estatuto de los derechos como en la represión estatal de la criminalidad política y social. Para ello, se estudian fuentes históricas que dan cuen…
The Ovambo Genocide
At the turn of the twentieth century, Portugal launched armed campaigns to subdue its African colonies, following the example of neighbouring powers. The Ovambo peoples of southern Angola mounted strong resistance to Portuguese encroachment. Lisbon’s anxieties were compounded by the German presence in South West Africa. In late 1914, the Ovambo seized upon the Portuguese military defeat by German forces to lead an unprecedented uprising. Portugal…
Les juges et les pistoleros. Violence sociale, violence politique et crise du régime de la Restauration en Espagne (1917-1923)
Les dernières années du régime de la Restauration en Espagne furent marquées par une intensification sans précédent de la violence syndicale et patronale, phénomène connu sous le nom de pistolerismo. Les troubles de cette période culminèrent avec le coup d’État de Primo de Rivera en septembre 1923. Cet article examine un aspect peu exploré du pistolerismo : sa dimension judiciaire. La magistrature participa volontiers à la répression des syndicat…
Defend the Nation, Crush the People
The creation of compact nation-states out of multi-ethnic empires in the Balkans was accompanied by bouts of ethnic cleansing. Critical histories of the emergence of the modern Balkan states have consequently tended to focus on ethnic violence. However, state violence often targeted the ‘dominant’ ethnic group as well, as its centralizing and modernizing agenda put it at loggerheads with traditional sources power and autonomy. Conscription was pe…
El otro pistolerismo
Este artículo reconstruye la degeneración violenta de las relaciones laborales en la comarca de la Ría de Bilbao 1919-1923, centrándose en la violencia intersindical «fratricida» que enfrentó a sindicatos comunistas, socialistas, anarcosindicalistas, nacionalistas y católicos. Se rastrea y analiza la brutalización de la vida sindical, el papel del Estado y la patronal en este deterioro y su entrecruzamiento con el conflicto nacional vasco, que se…
Nuestra señora Browning
Las luchas sindicales que sacudieron España en 1917-1923 exhibieron una violencia sin precedentes y contribuyeron a socavar el régimen liberal de la Restauración. Son los años del llamado pistolerismo. Este artículo aborda este fenómeno desde una perspectiva hasta ahora ignorada: las armas, incluyendo su producción y circulación, su adquisición y uso por los grupos de acción sindicales, y los intentos del Estado de controlar su comercio. Las pist…
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923
Political violence in Europe in 1917–23 has typically been associated with the destabilizing impact of the First World War. However, some forms of violence displayed continuities with the pre-1914 period and were not directly related to the war, as was the case with trade union violence. This article engages with debates about the character and causality of the convulsions that shook the continent in 1917–23 through the case study of labour viole…
National Interests and Local Loyalties
De Moscú a Zaragoza
El enamoramiento de los anarcosindicalistas de la CNT con la Revolución rusa en sus primeros años es bien conocido. Su abrupta separación con la Internacional Comunista en junio de 1922, sin embargo, sigue rodeada de misterio. Para gran parte de la historiografía, la ruptura con la Comintern fue una epifanía ocasionada por la llegada de informes alarmantes sobre el autoritarismo del régimen soviético. Usando fuentes nuevas, este artículo revisa e…
Neutrality and Internationalism
During the First World War, hundreds of exiles and refugees from across Europe arrived in neutral Spain. This article investigates the colony of Russian exiles that settled in the country and their interactions with the Spanish labour movement. It contends that the exiles played a prominent role as conveyors of information on the Russian Revolution, which served as an important source of inspiration during the social upheavals that rocked Spain i…
Guerra, exilio y comunismo
Este texto estudia el activismo político de la comunidad de desertores estadunidenses asentados en el México revolucionario durante la primera guerra mundial. El artículo se centra en la figura de Charles Francis Phillips, un insumiso neoyorquino que huyó a México en mayo de 1918. Allí, se implicaría activamente en la izquierda radical mexicana y entraría en contacto con agentes del gobierno soviético, implicándose en los esfuerzos para establece…
Deserters of War, Soldiers of Revolution
This article explores the origins of the global communist movement in the years 1914–21, with special emphasis on the Americas and Spain. It does so through the biography of Charles Phillips, a US army deserter who defected to revolutionary Mexico in 1918, where he intervened in the country’s stormy labor politics and plugged into dynamic transnational networks geared toward Soviet Russia. His contact with Soviet emissaries drove him to Moscow in…
Embajadas y barricadas
Este artículo investiga los pasos del primer representante del gobierno soviético en México y España, Mijaíl Borodin, en 1919-1920. Borodin dio un impulso decisivo a la creación de partidos comunistas en sendos países, vinculándose para ello a redes de activismo transnacional preexistentes y aglutinando un equipo de militantes cosmopolitas, jóvenes y entregados a la causa. Asimismo, trataría, con poco éxito, de ganarse la simpatía del gobierno re…
A Proletarian Turf War
From 1919 to 1923, Barcelona experienced unprecedented levels of social conflict. The growth of the anarcho-syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (CNT) had awakened the spectre of social revolution among the city's conservative classes, and a broad constellation of reactionary forces lined up against it, the Sindicatos Libres (free trade unions) being the most formidable among them. Created in 1919 by Catholic workers, the Sindicatos Libre…
Assassins against the Old Order
Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 24(5), pp. 761–762
Interview with S. A. Smith
S. A. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Oxford. He is one of the leading scholars of the social and cultural history of the Russian Revolution and his book Red Petrograd: Revolutio
Anarcho-syndicalism and the Russian Revolution
First published online: 16 November 2018
Off to Moscow with No Passports and No Money’
This article will follow the steps of the 1921 Spanish syndicalist delegation to revolutionary Russia. It will use the delegation as a window into the revolutionary subculture of post-war Europe and into the experience of foreign representatives in early Soviet Russia. Particular attention will be paid to the complex ways in which syndicalist militants that were strongly influenced by anarchism grappled with the realities of Soviet Russia, to arg…
An Uncanny Honeymoon
The Russian Revolution became a beacon flare for anti-capitalists across the world, including many anarchists. The Spanish anarcho-syndicalists became ardent supporters of Bolshevism, and many endorsed the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Here, I try to arrive at a political and historical understanding of this uncanny honeymoon, and question empirical explanations that present it as a simple misunderstanding. I firstly historicize…
El menchevique madrile o
expertos reales o fingidos de la realidad rusa, adquirieran gran prominencia
Lenin in Barcelona
The Russian Revolution inaugurated a period of unprecedented social agitation in Spain, which shared notable structural similarities with Russia. The instability of this period, often referred to as the trienio bolchevista (three Bolshevik years), paved the way for military dictatorship in 1923, and revealed grave defects in the Spanish political and social edifice (the national question, the land question, the inefficiency and corruption of the …
A Proletarian Turf War
From 1919 to 1923, Barcelona experienced unprecedented levels of social conflict. The growth of the anarcho-syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (CNT) had awakened the spectre of social revolution among the city's conservative classes, and a broad constellation of reactionary forces lined up against it, the Sindicatos Libres (free trade unions) being the most formidable among them. Created in 1919 by Catholic workers, the Sindicatos Libre…
Anarcho-syndicalism and the Russian Revolution
First published online: 16 November 2018
Lenin in Barcelona
The Russian Revolution inaugurated a period of unprecedented social agitation in Spain, which shared notable structural similarities with Russia. The instability of this period, often referred to as the trienio bolchevista (three Bolshevik years), paved the way for military dictatorship in 1923, and revealed grave defects in the Spanish political and social edifice (the national question, the land question, the inefficiency and corruption of the …
De Moscú a Zaragoza
El enamoramiento de los anarcosindicalistas de la CNT con la Revolución rusa en sus primeros años es bien conocido. Su abrupta separación con la Internacional Comunista en junio de 1922, sin embargo, sigue rodeada de misterio. Para gran parte de la historiografía, la ruptura con la Comintern fue una epifanía ocasionada por la llegada de informes alarmantes sobre el autoritarismo del régimen soviético. Usando fuentes nuevas, este artículo revisa e…
Embajadas y barricadas
Este artículo investiga los pasos del primer representante del gobierno soviético en México y España, Mijaíl Borodin, en 1919-1920. Borodin dio un impulso decisivo a la creación de partidos comunistas en sendos países, vinculándose para ello a redes de activismo transnacional preexistentes y aglutinando un equipo de militantes cosmopolitas, jóvenes y entregados a la causa. Asimismo, trataría, con poco éxito, de ganarse la simpatía del gobierno re…
Lenin in Barcelona
The Russian Revolution inaugurated a period of unprecedented social agitation in Spain, which shared notable structural similarities with Russia. The instability of this period, often referred to as the trienio bolchevista (three Bolshevik years), paved the way for military dictatorship in 1923, and revealed grave defects in the Spanish political and social edifice (the national question, the land question, the inefficiency and corruption of the …
Interview with S. A. Smith
S. A. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Oxford. He is one of the leading scholars of the social and cultural history of the Russian Revolution and his book Red Petrograd: Revolutio
Anarcho-syndicalism and the Russian Revolution
First published online: 16 November 2018
Off to Moscow with No Passports and No Money’
This article will follow the steps of the 1921 Spanish syndicalist delegation to revolutionary Russia. It will use the delegation as a window into the revolutionary subculture of post-war Europe and into the experience of foreign representatives in early Soviet Russia. Particular attention will be paid to the complex ways in which syndicalist militants that were strongly influenced by anarchism grappled with the realities of Soviet Russia, to arg…
An Uncanny Honeymoon
The Russian Revolution became a beacon flare for anti-capitalists across the world, including many anarchists. The Spanish anarcho-syndicalists became ardent supporters of Bolshevism, and many endorsed the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Here, I try to arrive at a political and historical understanding of this uncanny honeymoon, and question empirical explanations that present it as a simple misunderstanding. I firstly historicize…
El menchevique madrile o
expertos reales o fingidos de la realidad rusa, adquirieran gran prominencia
Assassins against the Old Order
Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 24(5), pp. 761–762
Deserters of War, Soldiers of Revolution
This article explores the origins of the global communist movement in the years 1914–21, with special emphasis on the Americas and Spain. It does so through the biography of Charles Phillips, a US army deserter who defected to revolutionary Mexico in 1918, where he intervened in the country’s stormy labor politics and plugged into dynamic transnational networks geared toward Soviet Russia. His contact with Soviet emissaries drove him to Moscow in…
Embajadas y barricadas
Este artículo investiga los pasos del primer representante del gobierno soviético en México y España, Mijaíl Borodin, en 1919-1920. Borodin dio un impulso decisivo a la creación de partidos comunistas en sendos países, vinculándose para ello a redes de activismo transnacional preexistentes y aglutinando un equipo de militantes cosmopolitas, jóvenes y entregados a la causa. Asimismo, trataría, con poco éxito, de ganarse la simpatía del gobierno re…
A Proletarian Turf War
From 1919 to 1923, Barcelona experienced unprecedented levels of social conflict. The growth of the anarcho-syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (CNT) had awakened the spectre of social revolution among the city's conservative classes, and a broad constellation of reactionary forces lined up against it, the Sindicatos Libres (free trade unions) being the most formidable among them. Created in 1919 by Catholic workers, the Sindicatos Libre…
De Moscú a Zaragoza
El enamoramiento de los anarcosindicalistas de la CNT con la Revolución rusa en sus primeros años es bien conocido. Su abrupta separación con la Internacional Comunista en junio de 1922, sin embargo, sigue rodeada de misterio. Para gran parte de la historiografía, la ruptura con la Comintern fue una epifanía ocasionada por la llegada de informes alarmantes sobre el autoritarismo del régimen soviético. Usando fuentes nuevas, este artículo revisa e…
Neutrality and Internationalism
During the First World War, hundreds of exiles and refugees from across Europe arrived in neutral Spain. This article investigates the colony of Russian exiles that settled in the country and their interactions with the Spanish labour movement. It contends that the exiles played a prominent role as conveyors of information on the Russian Revolution, which served as an important source of inspiration during the social upheavals that rocked Spain i…
Guerra, exilio y comunismo
Este texto estudia el activismo político de la comunidad de desertores estadunidenses asentados en el México revolucionario durante la primera guerra mundial. El artículo se centra en la figura de Charles Francis Phillips, un insumiso neoyorquino que huyó a México en mayo de 1918. Allí, se implicaría activamente en la izquierda radical mexicana y entraría en contacto con agentes del gobierno soviético, implicándose en los esfuerzos para establece…
National Interests and Local Loyalties
Les juges et les pistoleros. Violence sociale, violence politique et crise du régime de la Restauration en Espagne (1917-1923)
Les dernières années du régime de la Restauration en Espagne furent marquées par une intensification sans précédent de la violence syndicale et patronale, phénomène connu sous le nom de pistolerismo. Les troubles de cette période culminèrent avec le coup d’État de Primo de Rivera en septembre 1923. Cet article examine un aspect peu exploré du pistolerismo : sa dimension judiciaire. La magistrature participa volontiers à la répression des syndicat…
Defend the Nation, Crush the People
The creation of compact nation-states out of multi-ethnic empires in the Balkans was accompanied by bouts of ethnic cleansing. Critical histories of the emergence of the modern Balkan states have consequently tended to focus on ethnic violence. However, state violence often targeted the ‘dominant’ ethnic group as well, as its centralizing and modernizing agenda put it at loggerheads with traditional sources power and autonomy. Conscription was pe…
El otro pistolerismo
Este artículo reconstruye la degeneración violenta de las relaciones laborales en la comarca de la Ría de Bilbao 1919-1923, centrándose en la violencia intersindical «fratricida» que enfrentó a sindicatos comunistas, socialistas, anarcosindicalistas, nacionalistas y católicos. Se rastrea y analiza la brutalización de la vida sindical, el papel del Estado y la patronal en este deterioro y su entrecruzamiento con el conflicto nacional vasco, que se…
Nuestra señora Browning
Las luchas sindicales que sacudieron España en 1917-1923 exhibieron una violencia sin precedentes y contribuyeron a socavar el régimen liberal de la Restauración. Son los años del llamado pistolerismo. Este artículo aborda este fenómeno desde una perspectiva hasta ahora ignorada: las armas, incluyendo su producción y circulación, su adquisición y uso por los grupos de acción sindicales, y los intentos del Estado de controlar su comercio. Las pist…
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923
Political violence in Europe in 1917–23 has typically been associated with the destabilizing impact of the First World War. However, some forms of violence displayed continuities with the pre-1914 period and were not directly related to the war, as was the case with trade union violence. This article engages with debates about the character and causality of the convulsions that shook the continent in 1917–23 through the case study of labour viole…
Far from a Popular Movement
During the First World War, Greek society became sharply polarized around the figures of Liberal Party leader Eleftherios Venizelos, who supported intervention on the Allied side, and King Constantine, who favored neutrality. This rift, known as the National Schism, eventually resulted in the country's split in 1916–1917 with the formation of the pro-Allied "National Defense" regime in Thessaloniki while the official government in Athens remained…
«Una injusticia inversa». El jurado popular ante los delitos políticos y sociales en España (1917-1923)
Este artículo analiza la repercusión del juicio por jurado popular en el sistema punitivo español durante 1917-1923. Inspirándose en los planteamientos de Michel Foucault y Bartolomé Clavero, intenta aclarar cuál fue, en la práctica, el rol constitucional de dicha institución tanto en la definición del estatuto de los derechos como en la represión estatal de la criminalidad política y social. Para ello, se estudian fuentes históricas que dan cuen…
The Ovambo Genocide
At the turn of the twentieth century, Portugal launched armed campaigns to subdue its African colonies, following the example of neighbouring powers. The Ovambo peoples of southern Angola mounted strong resistance to Portuguese encroachment. Lisbon’s anxieties were compounded by the German presence in South West Africa. In late 1914, the Ovambo seized upon the Portuguese military defeat by German forces to lead an unprecedented uprising. Portugal…
Political science (17 works) · Spanish History and Politics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works)