This thesis seeks to understand the variety of factors that influenced the fairly widespread defection of much of the Spanish paramilitary constabulary, the Civil Guard, during the military rebellion that sparked the 1936-1939 Civil War. The significance of this phenomenon for t…
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In the convulsive environment that followed World War I and the Russian Revolution, the issues of policing and public order were of primary importance to the various governments of Interwar Europe. The book features original research on 10 different countries and will be vitally…
The convulsions of the First World War left considerable economic, social and political instability in their wake, bringing with them significant challenges to the various regimes of Interwar Europe. As a result, great emphasis was placed on the need to maintain order as well as…