by Stanley G. Payne · Espasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467032987
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«¿Por qué la República perdió la guerra?» is the historical essay by Stanley G. Payne, published by Espasa in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The essay analyzes the republican failure in the Spanish Civil War, in a Europe shaken by wars and revolutions. Stanley G. Payne studies the left-wing revolutionary process opened in 1931 and argues that it eroded democracy, so the military uprising of 1936 did not face a democracy that, in his view, no longer existed.
It is the first title in the Espasa Forum collection, translated by José C. Vales; the original text is in English.
It is a work for those interested in contemporary Spanish history and in the historiographical debate on the Second Republic and the Civil War.
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Stanley G. Payne is an American academic and historian, specialized in the history of modern Spain and European fascist movements at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He retired from full-time teaching in 2004 and is currently Professor Emeritus at its Department of History. His works on the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist period received various estimates: while by the 1980s he had earned the reputation of "America's most prolific historian of Spain", in the 21st century his later works became known for their "revisionist" approach, and received criticism from other historians as overly benevolent towards Falangism and for allegedly spreading Francoist narratives. However, other historians have praised Payne's work in the 21st century. In 2018, Julius Ruiz praised Payne's 2017 work Alcala Zamora and the Failure of the Spanish Republic.
