Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Dimensions of Conflict, 1917-1949
Redaktion: Kokosalakis, Yiannis; Leira-Castiñeira, Francisco J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a broad overview of the conditions, motives, and practices of violence during the most prominent intra-state conflicts in Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

This book seeks to move beyond accounts of civil war violence that focus on microlevel motives or grand cleavages, arguing instead that violence is best examined as a multidimensional phenomenon involving a range of structural, personal, and conjectural factors operating at various levels of societal interaction. Making a case for methodological pluralism, the volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians and social scientists to address the aspects of civil war violence from a broad range of empirical and methodological perspectives. The book consists of three thematic sections. The first section covers contextual issues related to civil war violence, including the role of ideology and social dynamics. The second and third sections comprise empirical case studies that examine the dimensions of violence in six prominent European civil wars. The volume focuses on these particular conflicts because they are almost universally recognized as instances of civil war, and this enables the volume to maintain its analytical focus on the dynamics of violence.

This book will be of much interest to students of European history, civil wars, political violence, and International Relations in general.

Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040333266
• Artikelnr.: 73476217

Autorenporträt

Yiannis Kokosalakis is a guest researcher at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is the author of Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921-1941 (2023). Francisco J. LeiräCastiñeira is the Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Charles III University of Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Franco's Soldiers: Recruitment and Combat in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) (2023) and co¿editor of The Crucible of Francoism (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction: Civil War in Word and Deed: Dimensions of violence
in Europe's Age of Civil Wars 1. Civil War as the Graveyard of Revolution
in Europe, 1917-1923 2. "Civil War" in Modern France: A Historical
Genealogy from Discursive Violence to Physical Killing 3. Was There a
Balkan Civil War? 4. "Kill or Be Killed": Psychological Approaches to
Decision-Making and Moral Judgements in Wartime 5. Defining the Enemy:
Propaganda in a Civil War 6. Brutality in Civil Wars: Sociological
Reflections 7. 'Corpulent plutocrats' versus 'scheming Jews': Propaganda
and Violence in the Russian Civil War8. Enemy Images, Group Experiences and
Propaganda in the Finnish Civil War, 1918 9. 10. "The war of words":
Propaganda during the Spanish Civil War11. Patriots, Traitors, and Rebels:
Mutual Portraits of Partisans and Fascists in the Italian Civil War,
1943-1945 12. : Myth and Reality of Violence during the Russian Revolution,
1917-1918 14. Citizens at War: Mobilization, Militarization, and Atrocities
in the Finnish Civil War and Beyond 18.