Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars

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

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

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.