The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War
Author | : Edward Hallett Carr |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward Hallett Carr |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316368920 |
International Communism and the Spanish Civil War provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Exploring the transnational exchanges that occurred in Soviet-structured spaces - from clandestine schools for training international revolutionaries in Moscow to the International Brigades in Spain - the book uncovers complex webs of interaction, at once personal and political, that linked international communists to one another and the Soviet Union. The Spanish Civil War, which coincided with the great purges in the Soviet Union, stands at the center of this grassroots history. For many international communists, the war came to define both their life histories and political commitments. In telling their individual stories, the book calls attention to a central paradox of Stalinism - the simultaneous celebration and suspicion of transnational interactions - and illuminates the appeal of a cause that promised solidarity even as it practiced terror.
Author | : R. Dan Richardson |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813164370 |
When Spain exploded into civil war in July 1936, a conflict whose roots were deep in the Spanish past became the arena for the violent political passions that divided Europe north of the Pyrenees. Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union intervened actively in the war, using Spain as a testing ground for their military equipment and techniques and their political ideologies. In this first in-depth study of the politics of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, R. Dan Richardson views the Brigades in the wider context of both the complex political-military alignments of Loyalist Spain and the broader Soviet-Comintern strategy during the Popular Front era. While not denying the generous impulse that led many young men the world over to enlist in the cause of the Spanish Republic, he sees the Brigades primarily as instruments of communist policy. He argues that the directing force behind the enlistment, training, and deployment of the Brigades was the international communist organization -- a compelling example of how the ends of propaganda and politics took precedence over military objectives. Using a wide array of sources in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German, and a thorough analysis of the Brigades' own voluminous literary output, Richardson clearly shows that the Brigades were a significant political, ideological, and propaganda instrument, which was used effectively by the Comintern for its own purposes, not only in Spain but on the larger world stage.
Author | : Stanley G. Payne |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300130783 |
In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the early 1930s to the end of the civil war in 1939. Drawing on a very broad range of Soviet and Spanish primary sources, including many only recently available, Payne changes our understanding of Soviet and Communist intentions in Spain, of Stalin’s decision to intervene in the Spanish war, of the widely accepted characterization of the conflict as the struggle of fascism against democracy, and of the claim that Spain’s war constituted the opening round of World War II. The author arrives at a new view of the Spanish Civil War and concludes not only that the Democratic Republic had many undemocratic components but also that the position of the Communist party was by no means counterrevolutionary.
Author | : Gustavo Martín-Asensio |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2024-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350443352 |
The Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939, has been written about widely and remains mired in antifascist, anti-communist, and historical memory controversies. A deep dive into the Soviet, British intelligence and other European archives, this new book brings the majority consensus among historians of the Second Republic into question and sheds new light on the scale of Soviet communist activity in Spain before the outbreak of war in July 1936. Providing an in-depth analysis of Comintern (RGASPI) and other European archival documentation, much of which has not been discussed until now, Gustavo Martín Asensio here demonstrates the growing and fundamentally subversive activity of the Comintern within the socialist union and party, the armed forces and cultural influencers which culminated in the spring of 1936.
Author | : R. Dan Richardson |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813183502 |
When Spain exploded into civil war in July 1936, a conflict whose roots were deep in the Spanish past became the arena for the violent political passions that divided Europe north of the Pyrenees. Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union intervened actively in the war, using Spain as a testing ground for their military equipment and techniques and their political ideologies. In this first in-depth study of the politics of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, R. Dan Richardson views the Brigades in the wider context of both the complex political-military alignments of Loyalist Spain and the broader Soviet-Comintern strategy during the Popular Front era. While not denying the generous impulse that led many young men the world over to enlist in the cause of the Spanish Republic, he sees the Brigades primarily as instruments of communist policy. He argues that the directing force behind the enlistment, training, and deployment of the Brigades was the international communist organization—a compelling example of how the ends of propaganda and politics took precedence over military objectives. Using a wide array of sources in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German, and a thorough analysis of the Brigades' own voluminous literary output, Richardson clearly shows that the Brigades were a significant political, ideological, and propaganda instrument, which was used effectively by the Comintern for its own purposes, not only in Spain but on the larger world stage.
Author | : Ronald Radosh |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300089813 |
"Spain Betrayed provides full documentation of the Soviets' activities during the Spanish Civil War. Documents in the book reveal that the Soviet Union not only swindled the Spanish Republic out of millions of dollars through arms deals but also sought to take over and run the Spanish economy, government, and armed forces in order to make Spain a Soviet possession, thereby effectively destroying the foundations of authentic Spanish antifascism. The documents also shed light on many other disputed episodes of the war: the timing of the Republican request for assistance from the Soviet Union; the rise and fall of the International Brigades; the internal workings of the Comintern and its influence on Spain; and much more."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Paul Preston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
History of the Spanish Civil War that sent the whole nation to government under the Fraco regime.
Author | : Burnett Bolloten |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807819067 |
A detailed account of the war describes Republican political life during the period and recounts the rise of the Spanish Communist Party
Author | : Herbert R. Southworth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134587066 |
Written by one of the most celebrated historians of the Spanish Civil War, this book acts as both an outstanding introduction to the vast literature of the war, and a monumental contribution to that literature.