Dr Julius Ruiz (BA(Hons), MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS)

Senior Lecturer

Biography

Background

A graduate of Swansea University, I carried out my doctoral research at Wolfson College, Oxford under the supervision of Dr Frances Lannon. I arrived in Edinburgh in 2003 after holding a Post Doctoral Fellowship at King's College London.

Undergraduate teaching

  • The People's Game. A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939
  • Restoration Spain 1875-1923 (3/4 Hons)
  • The Spanish Civil War (4MA)

Postgraduate teaching

  • The Closest of Enemies: US-Cuban Relations 1898-2014 

Current PhD students supervised

  • Connolly, Mark
    • PhD
    •  Antisemitic thought in the Spanish and Austrian Right (1931-1936)
    • Primary supervisor

Past PhD students supervised

  • Kokosalakis, Yiannis
    • PhD
    • A social history of the Soviet Communist Party 1928-1941
    • Secondary supervisor
  • Raeburn, Fraser
    • PhD
    • Scottish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
    • Primary supervisor
  • Pole, Adrian
    • PhD
    • Cross-cultural encounters between Spaniards and International Brigaders
    • Primary supervisor
  • Lindsay-Pérez, Monica
    • PhD
    •  Spain in Black and White: Marketing Race and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Spanish Visual Culture
    • Secondary supervisor

Research summary

Themes: 

  • Culture
  • Diplomatic History
  • Politics
  • War

Periods: 

  • Twentieth Century & After

Current research interests

My current research interests lie in twentieth-century Spain, especially the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. I have just completed a history of the Republican secret police during the conflict entitled La guerra sucia: La República contra La Quinta Columna [The Dirty War: The Republican Struggle against the Fifth Column] that will be published by Espasa Libros in October 2024. As a keen fan of Reading Football Club, I am also interested in the global history of football, particularly before 1939.

The list below is a subset of the information held on the University of Edinburgh PURE system, and includes Books, Chapters, Articles and Conference contributions. For a full list, including details of other publication types (e.g. reviews), please see the Edinburgh Research Explorer page for Dr Julius Ruiz.

Books - Authored

Ruiz, J. (2016) 'Paracuellos': The Elimination of the ‘Fifth Column’ in Republican Madrid During the Spanish Civil War.Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press

Ruiz, J. (2015) Paracuellos. Una Verdad Incomoda. S.L.U. Espasa Libros

Ruiz, J. (2015) The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid. New York: Mac Keith Press, Cambridge Univ Press

Ruiz, J. (2012) La justicia d Franco: la represión en Madrid tras la Guerra Civil. Barcelona: RBA Libros

Ruiz, J. (2012) El terror rojo. Spain: Espasa Libros

Articles

Ruiz, J. (2015) Carrillo fue el 'facilitador' de Paracuellos. El Mundo

Ruiz, J. (2011) Las metanacciones del exterminio. Revista del Libros

Ruiz, J. (2011) Fighting the International Conspiracy: The Francoist Persecution of Freemasonry, 1936–1945. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 12(2), pp. 179-196DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2011.591981

Ruiz, J. (2010) ‘¿El genocidio español? Reflexiones sobre el auto de Garzón’. Noticiero de las ideas, 37

Ruiz, J. (2009) Work and don't lose hope': Republican Forced Labour Camps during the Spanish Civil War. Contemporary European History, 18 (4), pp. 419-442DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777309990087

Ruiz, J. (2009) Incontrolables' en la zona republicana durante la guerra civil: el caso de Luis Bonilla Echevarria. Historia y Política, 21, pp. 191-218

Ruiz, J. (2009) Seventy Years On: Historians and Repression during and after the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Contemporary History, 44 (3), pp. 449-472DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009409104118

Ruiz, J. (2007) Defending the Republic: The Garcia Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936. Journal of Contemporary History, 42 (1), pp. 97 - 115DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009407071625

Ruiz, J. (2005) A Spanish genocide? Reflections on the post-war Francoist repression. Contemporary European History, 14(2), pp. 171-191DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777305002304

Chapters

Ruiz, J. (2018) Fighting the fifth column: The terror in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. In: Barros, A. and Thomas, M. (eds.) The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 47-63DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643542

Ruiz, J. (2017) El Comité Provincial de Investigación Pública: Los crímenes de la checa de Fomento a través del testimonio policial. In: Moreno Cantano, A. (ed.) Checas: Miedo y odio en la España de la guerra civil. TREA, pp. 39-59

Ruiz, J. (2016) Дожное обвинение: Советский Союэ и эверства реслубдиканцев в Паракуэдвос. In:  Русский сборник: Исследования по истории России. Том XX: СССР и Гражданская война в Испании 1936-1939. Moscow: Модест Колеров, pp. 315-351

Ruiz, J. (2012) Vino nuevo en odres viejos: La historiografía de la represión en España durante y después de la guerra civil. In: del Rey Reguillo , F. and Álvarez Tardío, M. (eds.) El laberinto republicano: La democracia española y sus enemigos (1931-1936). Barcelona: RBA Libros, pp. 186-201

Ruiz, J. (2011) Incontrolables en Madrid durante la Guerra Civil: Las vidas paralelas de Agapito García Atadell y Luis Bonilla Echevarría. In: Bullón de Mendoza , A. and Togores, L. (eds.) La otra memoria. San Sebastián de los Reyes – Madrid: Editorial Actas, S.L., pp. 198-204

Ruiz, J. (2011) Old Wine in New Bottles: The Historiography of Repression in Spain During and After the Spanish Civil War’. In: Tardío, F. (ed.) The Spanish Second Republic Revisited. From Democratic Hopes to Civil War (1931-1936).Sussex Academic Press

Ruiz, J. (2004) Was the Spanish Civil War inevitable?. In: K W Estes, D. (ed.) History in Dispute, Vol 18: The Spanish Civil War. Detroit: St. James Press, pp. 103-108

Ruiz, J. (2003) La Justicia Militar en Madrid 1939-1945. ¿Justicia exterminadora?. In: Isidro, J. (ed.) España en guerra. Protagonistas para un conflicto. Dykinson S.L., pp. 87-111

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