Annotated Bibliography
"5 Little Known Facts about Joseph Stalin." Biographies & Figures Articles Knoji. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/may/19/featuresreviews.guardianreview34 (accessed July 15, 2013). An article about an exhibit of Stalin's collection of nude pencil sketches by acclaimed Russian artists.
"Bando de tus antepasados durante la guerra civil." Mediavida. http://www.mediavida.com/foro/off-topic/bando-tus-antepasados-durante-guerra-civil-413660 (accessed July 14, 2013). An internet forum discussion thread from Spain: "Which side did your ancestors fight on during the civil war?"
Benfey, Christopher. "Book Review — 'Iron Fists,' by Steven Heller." The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Benfey-t.html?_r=0 (accessed July 13, 2013). A review of Steven Heller's Iron Fists.
Blaye, Edouard de. Franco and the Politics of Spain. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. A good survey of Franco's reign.
"Cartel 25 años de paz , 1964." Antiguedades, arte y coleccionismo. http://www.todocoleccion.net/cartel-25-anos-paz-1964-ilustrado-por-gargayo~x23700871 (accessed July 15, 2013). A poster from the 1964 peace celebrations.
Conde, Mario. "El tuteo fascista y el ustedeo progresista." Homepage of marioconde.org. http://www.marioconde.org/blog/2010/02/el-tuteo-fascista-y-el-ustedeo-progresista-socrates/ (accessed July 15, 2013). Mario Conde discusses the political and social implications of the Falangist/Fascist use of informal address and the progressive maintenance of formal address in modern Spanish.
Casanova, Julían, Francisco Espinosa, Conxita Mir, and Francisco Moreno Gómez. Morir, matar, sobrevivir : la violencia en la dictadura de Franco. Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 2002. A history of Francoist repression.
DiGrazia, Christine. "Yale's Life-or-Death Course in Art Criticism." The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/nyregion/yale-s-life-or-death-course-in-art-criticism.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm (accessed July 16, 2013). DiGrazia describes Linda Friedlaender's technique for building the observational powers of medical students.
F., Mario. "El desdichado Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco-Tlatelolco." archivo L. http://hugofl.blogspot.com/2012/10/el-desdichado-conjunto-urbano-nonoalco.html (accessed July 15, 2013). A great article and collection of photos about the Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco-Tlatelolco.
"Franco, ese hombre: 25 años de paz." YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcab1zz_Kfg (accessed July 15, 2013). A Spanish film from 1964 captures details of Franco's celebration of twenty-five years of peace.
Goitibera, Txomin. "Frikadas en general." El puente y la araña. http://txomingoitibera.wordpress.com/category/frikadas-en-general/ (accessed July 15, 2013). A poster and a cartoon from the 1964 peace celebrations.
Gonzalez-Barrera, Ana, and Mark Hugo Lopez. "A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States." Pew Hispanic Center. http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/05/01/a-demographic-portrait-of-mexican-origin-hispanics-in-the-united-states/ (accessed July 26, 2013). A 2013 report on Mexican-American demographic trends.
Govan, Fiona. "General Franco: the Accomplished Artist." Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8761811/General-Franco-the-accomplished-artist.html (accessed July 13, 2013). While Francisco Franco was certainly not a master artist, he was an avid painter and possessed a level of skill beyond that of a competent amateur, according to Fiona Govan.
Govan, Fiona. "General Franco and Painting: the Secret Passions of Dictators." Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8762383/General-Franco-and-painting-the-secret-passions-of-dictators.html (accessed July 13, 2013). Fiona Govan surveys the artistic aspirations of some notable dictators.
Govan, Fiona. "General Franco: the Accomplished Artist." Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8761811/General-Franco-the-accomplished-artist.html (accessed July 13, 2013). Fiona Govan highlights a little known passion of Generalissimo Francisco Franco: painting.
Heller, Steven. Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State. London: Phaidon, 2010. This book looks at 20th century totalitarian art across the ideological spectrum.
Help Catalonia. "Help Catalonia: Spanish Nationalism (3)." Help Catalonia. http://www.helpcatalonia.cat/2011/06/spanish-nationalism-3.html (accessed July 15, 2013). More posters from Franco's Spain.
Hudson, Mark. "General Franco Shares Artistic Similarities with Adolf Hitler." Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8762762/General-Franco-shares-artistic-similarities-with-Adolf-Hitler.html (accessed July 13, 2013). Hudson discusses the stylistic and thematic similarities of the the two dictators' art.
Huxley, Aldous. "Brave New World Revisited (1958) by Aldous Huxley." Aldous Huxley: Brave New World. http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/ (accessed July 14, 2013). Steven Heller quotes extensively from Brave New World Revisited.
Jimenez, Aurelio. "Carteles año 1964." Muestra de pintura onubense. http://www.aureliojimenez.com/64.html (accessed July 15, 2013). A marvelous collection of propaganda posters highlighting Spanish industrial and social progress from 1964.
Kleinfeld, Gerald R., and Lewis A. Tambs. Hitler's Spanish Legion: the Blue Division in Russia. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. A history of the Blue Division, Spanish troops who fought for Hitler on the Eastern Front during World War Two.
Larrosa, Manuel, and Louise Noelle. Mario Pani, arquitecto de su época. 1. ed. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Impr. Universitaria, 1985. A retrospective overview of the work of Mario Pani, published the year of the Mexico City earthquake that destroyed a portion of his work.
Malpas, Anna . "Exhibition Reveals Stalin's 'Nude Drawings Hobby'." Google. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iP77Tu3W9UHACDODDDkHFy1tNdew?docId=CNG.df8645c9cfbf9f395df4c5c8e65e604d.2a1&index=0 (accessed July 15, 2013). An article about an exhibit of Stalin's collection of nude pencil sketches by acclaimed Russian artists.
National Center for Education Statistics. "Search for Public Schools — School Detail for Independence High." National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page. http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&State=37&Zip=28227&ID=370297001229 (accessed November 15, 2012). Statistics for U.S. high schools.
Palomar Bardá, Eduardo. ""Esclavos" en el Valle de los Caídos.." Generalísimo Francisco Franco. http://www.generalisimofranco.com/valle_caidos/01f.htm (accessed July 15, 2013). This Falangist site lauds Franco's memorial.
Payne, Stanley. "Chapter 26: A History of Spain and Portugal Vol. 2." The Library of Iberian Resources Online. http://libro.uca.edu/payne2/payne26.htm#N_1_ (accessed July 13, 2013). Payne points out that the overall percentage of the Spanish population killed in the nine years of Francoist repression following the Civil War is roughly equivalent to the percentage of the Finnish population killed in Red and White terror action during the four month Finnish civil war in 1918.
Payne, Stanley G.. The Franco Regime, 1936-1975. Madison, Wisconsin.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. A comprehensive history of Franco's regime.
Pellico, Linda Honan , Linda Friedlaender, and Kristopher Fennie. "Looking Is Not Seeing: Using Art to Improve Observational Skills." Journal of Nursing Education 48, no. 11 (2009): 648-653. http://www.healio.com/~/media/Journals/JNE/2009/11_November/10_3928_01484834_20090828_02/10_3928_01484834_20090828_02.pdf (accessed July 15, 2013). Linda Friedlaender has developed a program to teach medical students observational skills using art history.
Rayfield, Donald. "To the Moon by Soselo (Josef Stalin)." The Guardian . http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/may/19/featuresreviews.guardianreview34 (accessed July 15, 2013). Donald Rayfield presents a translation of one of Stalin's poems, published under the pseudonym Soselo.
Richards, Michael. A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. A book on political repression under the Franco regime.
Richards, Michael. After the Civil War: Making Memory and Re-Making Spain since 1936. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. An overview of the political uses of war memories in Spain since 1939.
Rocks, Bishkek. "Die Thingstätte auf dem Heidelberger Heiligenberg." Wikimedia.org. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Heiligenberg_Thingst%C3%A4tte.JPG (accessed July 15, 2013). A photograph of an early National Socialist amphitheater in Germany.
Simkin, John. "The Nationalist Army." Spartacus Educational. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPnationalistA.htm (accessed July 14, 2013). Simkin gives an overview of the Nationalist forces that fought in the Spanish Civil War.
______. "Spanish Civil War: Casualties." Spartacus Educational. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPcasualties.htm (accessed July 14, 2013). Simkin is a popular historian and educational publisher.
"Spain — GDP per Capita." Index Mundi - Country Facts. http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/spain/gdp-per-capita (accessed July 14, 2013). Historical economic data for Spain.
Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Harper and Row, 1977. A respected history of the Spanish Civil War.
Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997. An engaging and authoritative primer on the visual presentation of information.
Tusell, Javier. Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy: 1939 to the Present. Malden, Massachutsetts: Blackwell Pub., 2007. An outstanding overview of Spanish political and economic development since the end of the Civil War.
V.Z., Raúl. "Duda Medalla División Azul." Foro Segunda Guerra Mundial Página principal. http://www.forosegundaguerra.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=9440 (accessed August 15, 2013).A photograph of a swastika-marked German medal issued to Spanish volunteers who fought for Hitler on the Eastern Front.
White, Matthew. "Twentieth Century Atlas — Death Tolls and Casualty Statistics for Wars, Dictatorships and Genocides." Twentieth Century Atlas -Death Tolls. http://necrometrics.com/20c300k.htm#Spanish (accessed July 14, 2013). White presents death toll data for major historical conflicts culled from a well cited survey of scholarly sources.
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