Article Title：Agrarian collectives during the Spanish revolution and Civil War
Abstract：
This article explores the history of rural collectivization in the Republican zone throughout the Spanish Revolution and civil war (1936-9). It is based on a variety of underused primary sources from military and civilian archives that provide information on agrarian collectives in Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia. In order to win the civil war, the Republic had to connect these rural economies to its urban and military sectors. It was hampered by the egotism of collectivists who gave top priority to their own needs or those of their village and neglected the requirements of the war and revolution. Hoarding goods and information showed that collectives were not the beehives of solidarity that their advocates hoped or claimed. Bartering and black marketeering in the countryside abandoned many urban residents and much of the Republican army to their hungry fates. A social historical approach from below shows that the conflict between rural and urban was as consequential for the Republic's decline as the political and social divisions that have often been the traditional focus of much Spanish civil-war historiography.
Keywords: anarchism; Spain; Spanish civil war; Spanish revolution
DOI: 10.1177/026569140003000203
Source：EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY
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