Violence and propaganda in European civil wars : dimensions of conflict, 1917-1949

• Other Authors: Kokosalakis, Yiannis, 1987- (Editor), Leira Castiñeira, Francisco J., 1987- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Routledge, [2025]
• Subjects: Civil war > Europe.; Propaganda.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781003306368; 1003306365; 9781040333266; 1040333265; 9781040333242; 1040333249; 9781032307114; 9781032307138
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This volume offers a broad overview of the conditions, motives, and practices of violence during the most prominent intra⁰́₁state 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 clea...

Table of Contents:

• 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