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But it was far and away the largest component. Also, they were brought down by both sides. It took the combination of treachery and fascist counter-revolution

But it was far and away the largest component. Also, they were brought down by both sides. It took the combination of treachery and fascist counter-revolution to bring it down. My own studies of it have been fairly superficial, and began with Homage, but the even itself is far from understood I believe, even by scholarship.

mercurial 11y ago
Like all wars, it's fairly complicated. > But it was far and away the largest component. I don't know if that's true. If we're talking number of troops, I don't think so. The bulk would be the loyalist part of the army and the Guardia Civil/Guardia Asalto. Then you had a number of political militias which would eventually be integrated into the regular army. In parallel, communists would introduce the political commissar system to enforce ideological "correctness" within the army, thus giving rise to entirely Communist regiments, based on the prototype of the 5th regiment (originally a communist-affiliated unit, later on integrated in the regular army as an elite corps).