In his monograph on the Spanish Civil War, Stanley Payne dedicates a chapter to what he calls “the breakdown of democracy”, wherein he narrates the unravelling of the Spanish Second Republic. In it, he includes a number of citations from…
Month: December 2020
Crusading Ideology and the Spanish Civil War: The Persistence of an Idea
In Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, there is a scene where a man who has been detained by the military for hunting rabbits in the woods and his adult…