Identificador: TDX:2740
Autores: González Devís, Raül
Resumen:
This doctoral thesis provides an innovative study of the anti-Franco armed resistance and the Agrupación Guerrillera de Levante y Aragón, combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, based on a diversification of historical sources. The AGLA, framed in the contemporary Spanish insurgency and in the anti-fascist European resistance, is included in the process of anti-Franco opposition and PCE reorganization. This study analyses the peculiarities and similarities in relation to other projects of armed resistance and understands why AGLA was considered model group and that more hopes arose in the PCE.
The study of the relevant territorial element, the peasantry and agrarian conflict, as well as the various factors that facilitated or prevented the collaboration and settlement of the armed groups, adds to the analysis of the origins, their military structure, the links with the Party, the operational repertoire, and the internal conflicts. The sociological composition of the AGLA, although it establishes a general guerrilla profile based on masculinity, youth, agrarian character and the decisive experience in the Civil War, shows high heterogeneity and the increasingly important role of the built-in from inside, regardless of their political origin.
Internal frictions, determined both by external and internal factors and not limited to mere confrontation of militancy, were one of the traits that marked their trajectory, and that resulted in dozens of desertions and executions. Conflicts, especially in the 17th and 23rd sectors, were also conditioned by the relentless anti-guerrilla chase led by the Civil Guard. The specificity and gradual intensification of repression, with hundreds of irregular deaths and arrests among guerrillas or civilians, determined the tragic end of the armed groups and the political desertification of the areas where they acted.
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