The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War

This groundbreaking history of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) examines, for the first time in any language, how General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist forces managed state finance and economic production, and mobilized support from elites and middle—class Spaniards, to achieve their eventual victory over Spanish Republicans and the revolutionary left.
The Spanish Nationalists are exceptional among counter—revolutionary movements of the twentieth century, Michael Seidman demonstrates,...