Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars

Dimensions of Conflict, 1917-1949
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-30711-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leira-Castineira, Francisco J.

Kokosalakis, Yiannis

Leira-Castiñeira, Francisco J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword  Introduction: Civil War in Word and Deed: Dimensions of violence in Europe’s Age of Civil Wars  Part I: Contextual Aspects of Violence  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  Part II: Political Discourse and Propaganda  7.   ‘Corpulent plutocrats’ versus ‘scheming Jews’: Propaganda and Violence in the Russian Civil War  8.     Enemy Images, Group Experiences and Propaganda in the Finnish Civil War, 1918  9.     “There can be no compromise”: The Propaganda of the Irish Civil War  10.  “The war of words”: Propaganda during the Spanish Civil War  11.  Patriots, Traitors, and Rebels: Mutual Portraits of Partisans and Fascists in the Italian Civil War, 1943-1945  12. Political Discourse and Propaganda during the Greek Civil War  Part III: Physical Violence  13.  The Lynching of Naval Officers by Seamen: 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   15.  Violence in the Irish Civil War  16.  “We Were Real Beasts”: From ‘Ordinary Men’ to Combatants in Spain, 1936-1939   17.  The Italian Civil War: An Explosion of Brutality  18. The Logic of Violence during the Greek Civil War, 1946-1949

Über Autor(innen)

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. Leira-Castiñeira 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).