The Spanish Civil War
This book presents an original new history of the most important con-flict in European affairs during the
 1930
s, prior to the events that pro-duced World War II – the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complexorigins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic, and theoutbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of WesternEurope. Stanley G. Payne explains the character of the Spanish revolu-tion and the complex web of republican politics, while also examiningin detail the development of Franco’s counterrevolutionary dictator-ship.Paynegivesattentiontothemultiplemeaningsandinterpretationsof war and examines why the conflict provoked such strong reactionsin its own time, and long after. The book also explains the militaryhistory of the war and its place in the history of military develop-ment; the nonintervention policy of the democracies; and the role of German,Italian,andSovietintervention,concludingwithananalysisof the place of the war in European affairs and in comparative perspectiveof revolutionary civil wars of the twentieth century.Stanley G. Payne has taught history at several universities, includingColumbia University, UCLA, and the University of Wisconsin. He isa member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a corre-sponding member of Real Academia Espa ˜ nola de la Historia, Madrid.He has received various awards and prizes, most recently the MarshalShulman Book Award of the American Association for the Advance-ment of Slavic Studies (
2005
) and the Gran Cruz de Isabel la Cat ´olicafrom the Spanish government (
2009
). He has been the coeditor of the
 Journal of Contemporary History
 since
 1999
. Professor Payne is theauthor of more than
 20
 books and
 150
 articles, as well as coauthor orcoeditor of 
 9
 books. Most recently, he is the author of 
 The Collapse of theSpanishRepublic,1933–1936:OriginsoftheCivilWar;Francoand Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II 
;
 Spain: A Unique History;
and
 Civil War in Europe, 1905–1949
.
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