Description This book analyses the processes of Revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil war.
By situating the struggles of the radical anarchists within the contested process of state reconstruction, the book affirms the continued relevance of this insight to the study of the Spanish revolution..
This resistance to state reconstruction was informed by the essential insight of anarchism: that the function and purpose of the modern state cannot be transformed from within.
Using original sources, Evans shows that the opposition to this process was both broader and more ideologically consistent than has hitherto been assumed, and that, in spite of its heterogeneity, it united around a common revolutionary programme.
This process implied participation not only in the organs of governance but also in the ideological reconstitution of the Republic as a patriarchal and national entity.
Their activity came into conflict with the leaders of their own organizations, who had joined the coalition government in order to reconstruct the state, following its near collapse in July 1936.
It focuses on the radical anarchists who sought to advance the revolutionary agenda.
Description This book analyses the processes of Revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil war
