Eduardo González Calleja (born 1962) is a Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the

Charles III University of Madrid University Charles III of Madrid ( es, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad rang ...

(UC3M). He is the author of a long list of scholar works dealing with

political violence Political violence is violence which is perpetrated in order to achieve political goals. It can include violence which is used by a state against other states (war), violence which is used by a state against civilians and non-state actors (forced ...

Biography

He was born in

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in 1962. In 1989, he earned a

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Contemporary History Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is ...

at the

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, reading a dissertation titled ''La radicalización de la derecha durante la Segunda República. 1931-1936. Violencia, paramilitarización y fascistización en la crisis española de los años treinta'' ("the radicalization of the right during the Second Republic. 1931–1936. Violence, paramilitarization and fascistisation"), supervised by

Julio Aróstegui Julio Aróstegui Sánchez (1939–2013) was a Spanish historian. Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), some of his research lines included the study of political violence in Modern Spanish history, Carlism, the Spanish Transitio ...

. He became a full researcher at the CSIC's ''Instituto de Historia''. A senior lecturer at the

(UC3M) since 2006, he was appointed to a Chair in Contemporary History in 2017.

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