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(Spanish title: Arquitectos del terror ), published in 2023 by preeminent historian Paul Preston , explores how manufactured conspiracy theories—specifically the "Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik" myth—were weaponized to justify the 1936 military coup and the subsequent decades of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Core Arguments

: Preston argues that although Spain had a tiny minority of Jews (fewer than 6,000) and Freemasons in 1936, the Francoist regime used them as a "bogeyman". This nonexistent conspiracy served as a convenient label to dehumanize a wide range of leftists and liberals who needed to be "exterminated". Arquitectos del terror - Paul Preston.epub

: A poet and major propagandist who toured battlefields and celebrated the sight of executed Republican soldiers. (Spanish title: Arquitectos del terror ), published in

: Noted Preston’s skill in "dissecting these vile characters" and called the work a masterpiece of a historian at the peak of his powers. : A poet and major propagandist who toured

: The book reveals how the military uprising was not merely a reaction to social unrest but a calculated move by elites (landowners, industrialists, and clerics) whose interests were protected by the narrative of a "crusade" against foreign-influenced evil.

: Approximately 464–528 pages depending on the edition.

The book is structured around the biographies of six influential ideologues and military men who propagated these myths: