Anarchism and the countryside: Old and new stumbling blocks in the study of rural collectivization during the Spanish Civil War

This article analyses the factors that have led to what in my opinion amounts to the marginalization of rural collectivization in Spanish Civil War historiography. The uniqueness of this process has added weight to the notion of exceptionalism typically attached to studies of the rural world, modern Spain, anarchism, and the Spanish Civil War. As a consequence, analyses of this phenomenon have tended to lack both complexity and a sufficient appreciation of context.