International Communism And The Spanish Civil War

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Communists
ISBN : 1316378926

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International Communism and the Spanish Civil War by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum Pdf

"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 : Edward Hallett Carr
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001955272

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The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War by Edward Hallett Carr Pdf

Author : Stanley G. Payne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300130782

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The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism by Stanley G. Payne Pdf

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 : Ronald Radosh,Mary R. Habeck,G. N. Sevostʹi͡anov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300089813

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Spain Betrayed by Ronald Radosh,Mary R. Habeck,G. N. Sevostʹi͡anov Pdf

"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 : Ronald Radosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0300162146

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Spain Betrayed by Ronald Radosh Pdf

Author : David Tredwell Cattell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015054489938

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Communism and the Spanish Civil War by David Tredwell Cattell Pdf

Author : Gabriel Jackson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400820184

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Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 by Gabriel Jackson Pdf

At the time of its occurrence, the Spanish Civil War epitomized for the Western world the confrontation of democracy, fascism, and communism. An entire generation of Englishmen and Americans felt a deeper emotional involvement in that war than in any other world event of their lifetimes, including the Second World War. On the Continent, its "lessons," as interpreted by participants of many nationalities, have played an important role in the politics of both Western Europe and the People's Democracies. Everywhere in the Western world, readers of history have noted parallels between the Spanish Republic of 1931 and the revolutionary governments which existed in France and Central Europe during the year 1848. The Austrian revolt of October 1934, reminded participants and observers alike of the Paris Commune of 1871, and even the most politically unsophisticated observers could see in the Spain of 1936 all the ideological and class conflicts which had characterized revolutionary France of 1789 and revolutionary Russia of 1917. It is not surprising, therefore, that the worthwhile books on the Spanish Civil War have almost all emphasized its international ramifications and have discussed its political crises entirely in the vocabulary of the French and Russian revolutions. Relatively few of the foreign participants realized that the Civil War had arisen out of specifically Spanish circumstances. Few of them knew the history of the Second Spanish Republic, which for five years prior to the war had been grappling with the problems of what we now call an "underdeveloped nation." In Spanish Republic and the Civil War, Gabriel Jackson expounds the history of the Second Republic and the Civil War primarily as seen from within Spain.

Author : Victor Alba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351488556

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Spanish Marxism versus Soviet Communism by Victor Alba Pdf

Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism is the first historical study of the P.O.U.M. to appear in English. Drawing from his multi-volume work on the subject, which was published in Spanish and Catalan, Victor Alba has collaborated with Stephen Schwartz to produce a condensed and amplified study that is far more than a translation.Outside Spain, the political movement known as the Workers Party of Marxist Unification (Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxist or P.O.U.M.) is chiefly known as the revolutionary group with which George Orwell fought during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. The events in which the P.O.U.M. found itself at the center of conflict between Iberian revolutionaries and Soviet interests remain a controversial topic for historians and other writers. This book presents a detailed picture of the organization and its main antecedent, the Workers' and Peasants' Bloc, in the context of a stimulating working class political culture.Those interested in Catalan history as well as historians of Western European Marxism and the Spanish Civil War will find this book useful. It will also be of interest to those concerned with Orwell and his experience in Spain. A fitting tribute to the P.O.U.M.'s great struggle against Stalinism, Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism will surely stand out among the array of books that have been published on the Spanish Civil War period as a definitive study.

Author : Pierre Broué,Émile Témime
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39076005825315

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The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain by Pierre Broué,Émile Témime Pdf

First published in France in 1961 as La Revolution et la guerre d'Espagne,this book explains the major issues of the Spanish Civil War in a remarkably clear and comprehensive fashion. The authors focus on the internal affairs of the Republic and the Anarchist collective experiments in particular. For further description, the book is best served by its critics: "The Broue-Temime work is the best general interpretation available concerning both the revolution of 1936 and the war. It is especially valuable for analysis of the CNT, the POUM, and the anarchists in both the industrial and rural areas of Catalonia. It contains rich chapters on the first days of the war in the large cities and on the May, 1937, struggle in the streets of Barcelona." —Gabriel Jackson, Hispanic American Historical Review "This, by contrast (with the work of Hugh Thomas), is what gives weight to the fine works of Pierre Broue: the effort by which he constructs a Spanish war where events, parties, and man, the motives that guided them, the difficulties they encountered, their feelings, debates, ideas, and sacrifices are arranged and told in order to make them comprehensible." —Jean-Pierre Peter, Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations "Broue has prepared the first half [of the book], dealing with the Spanish background, the revolution, and the first year of the war... [He] gives a particularly good treatment of the origins of the Spanish Communist party. "In the second half of this composite work, Temime has presented a clear, concise, and perceptive account of the military events in the last two years of the war and of the construction of Franco's authoritarian state." —Stanley G. Payne, Journal of Modern History

Author : Tim Rees,Andrew Thorpe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0719055466

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International Communism and the Communist International, 1919-43 by Tim Rees,Andrew Thorpe Pdf

The Communist International was formed in Moscow in 1919 as a factory of world revolution, but was dissolved in 1943 without having led a single successful working-class uprising. This book offers a reappraisal of the body.

Author : Michael Alpert
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0312120168

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A New International History of the Spanish Civil War by Michael Alpert Pdf

'...a lucid and scholarly account of an important and immensely complex subject...Dr. Alpert's command of a broad range of archival material, printed documents and secondary works in six languages is extremely impressive.' - P. Preston, London School of Economics and Political Science It is now twenty years since a study was dedicated to the international aspects of the Spanish Civil War and this new synthesis covering the whole of the era and setting it against major events of the late 1930s is well overdue. Michael Alpert takes full advantage of newly accessible archival sources to disentangle the intricacies of this complex issue.

Author : Herbert Rutledge Southworth
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Communism
ISBN : 041522781X

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Conspiracy and the Spanish Civil War by Herbert Rutledge Southworth Pdf

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.

Author : Burnett Bolloten
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789125092

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The Grand Camouflage by Burnett Bolloten Pdf

The product of many years’ research and material gathering, Burnett Bolloten’s The Grand Camouflage is a very richly documented study of the reasons for the Communists’ success in taking over the anti-Franco forces in the course of the Spanish Civil War. “ALTHOUGH the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July, 1936, was followed by a far-reaching social revolution in the anti-Franco camp—more profound in some respects than the Bolshevik Revolution in its early stages—millions of discerning people outside Spain were kept in ignorance, not only of its depth and range, but even of its existence, by virtue of a policy of duplicity and dissimulation of which there is no parallel in history. “Foremost in practising this deception upon the world, and in misrepresenting in Spain itself the character of the revolution, were the Communists, who, although but an exiguous minority when the Civil War began, used so effectually the manifold opportunities which that very upheaval presented that before the close of the conflict in 1939 they became, behind a democratic frontispiece, the ruling force in the left camp. “The overthrow in May, 1937, of the government of Francisco Largo Caballero, who was the most influential and popular of the left-wing leaders at the outbreak of the Civil War, marked the Communists’ greatest triumph in their rise to power. What was the secret of their success? And why did they attempt to screen from the outside world and to misrepresent in Spain itself the revolution that had swept the country? The answer lies within these pages.”—Burnett Bolloten

Author : Burnett Bolloten
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0807819069

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The Spanish Civil War by Burnett Bolloten Pdf

A detailed account of the war describes Republican political life during the period and recounts the rise of the Spanish Communist Party

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89070181342

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The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Paul Preston Pdf

History of the Spanish Civil War that sent the whole nation to government under the Fraco regime.