The Victorious Counterrevolution

How can one explain the outcome of the Spanish Civil War? In his 2002 study, Republic of Egos, Michael Seidman sought to explain why the Republicans lost the war. Rejecting conventional explications that ascribed the defeat of the Spanish left to pernicious Western non-intervention and fascist aid for Franco, the professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington argued that the Republic had been incapable of mobilising its human and industrial resources effectively throughout the conflict. In the present book, Seidman turns his attention to the Nationalist war effort. His approach is similar to that employed in the earlier study: it is based on exhaustive archival research and adopts a comparative analysis. Seidman again questions the significance of foreign intervention in explaining Franco’s unconditional victory in 1939, noting that counter-revolutionaries in Russia between 1917 and 1921, and in China before 1949, were unable to turn huge quantities of external assistance into military victory

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