Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism

Author : Victor Alba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Víctor Alba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:254415165

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Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism by Víctor Alba Pdf

Author : Victor Alba,Stephen Schwartz
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412807336

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Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism by Victor Alba,Stephen Schwartz 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 : Alan Sennett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004270565

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Revolutionary Marxism in Spain, 1930-1937 by Alan Sennett Pdf

Revolutionary Marxism in Spain, 1930-1937 examines the impact of Trotsky’s political thought upon those Spanish communists who dissented from the ‘general line’ laid down by Moscow. Using Spanish sources it sets out the position of the POUM and engages with scholarly debates around its role in the Spanish Popular Front, Civil War and Revolution.

Author : Ronald Radosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0300162146

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Spain Betrayed by Ronald Radosh Pdf

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : New York : Pathfinder Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046377712

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The Spanish Revolution, 1931-39 by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Analyzes the revolutionary upsurge on the land and in the factories leading to the Spanish civil war and how the Stalinists' course ensured a fascist victory.

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Communists
ISBN : 131637792X

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

This book provides an intimate picture of international communism during the Spanish Civil War.

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107106277

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

This book provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Focusing on Americans and Spaniards who worked or studied in Moscow and later participated in the Spanish civil war, it uncovers the personal and political ties that linked communists to one another and the Soviet Union.

Author : Stanley G. Payne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : 53,7 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 : José Peirats
Publisher : ChristieBooks.com
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 9781901172058

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The CNT in the Spanish Revolution by José Peirats Pdf

The most detailed history to date of the million-strong revolutionary trade union, the CNT, and of its grassroots supporters who, in July 1936, embarked upon the most far-reaching of all 20th century revolutionary experiments. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when the so-called 'Generation of 36, ' Peirats's own generation, rose up against the oppressive structures of Spanish society. It is also a history of a revolution that failed, crushed in the jaws of its enemies on both the democratic-left and the reactionary right. Containing a bounty of original documents produced by the trade unions, revolutionary assemblies and rural and industrial collectives of the 1930s, many of which are unavailable elsewhere, and all translated into English for the first time, Peirats explores the new social, economic and cultural arrangements that were introduced in the streets, fields and factories of republican Spain. A staggering work - fully indexed and footnoted, with 20 pages of photographs. Superlatives like mandatory and monumental really fail to do this justice. A vital book about a crucial era in history.

Author : Paul Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521530563

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Marxism and the Failure of Organised Socialism in Spain, 1879-1936 by Paul Heywood Pdf

This is the first full-length study in English of the role of Marxist theory in the Spanish Socialist movement prior to the outbreak of Civil War in 1936. In particular, the author stresses the intellectual poverty of this aspect of leftwing politics in Spain. In concentrating on the Partido Socialista Obrero Espafiol (PSOE), the major organised party of the left prior to the Civil War, the study seeks to achieve two main aims: first, to attempt to isolate the political, social and intellectual factors which led to a particularly distorted version of Marxism which became established in Spain at the end of the nineteenth century; and second, to demonstrate how this particular conception of Marxism had a crucial negative impact on the political formulations and fortunes of the PSOE between 1879 and 1936. The central argument of the book is that the significance of Spanish Marxism lay precisely in its poverty, since it was this 'decaffeinated' version of the theory which set the parameters within which the PSOE formulated its strategy for socialism.

Author : Augustín Souchy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0900384395

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The May Days, Barcelona 1937 by Augustín Souchy Pdf

Eyewitness reports of the crushing counter-revolution from Augustin Souchy, Jose Peirats, Burnett Bolloten and Emma Goldman. This 'minor' incident in the Spanish Civil War claimed more casualties in the armed struggle that took place, than in the first week of the military uprising in Barcelona on July 19th 1936.

Author : Sheelagh M. Ellwood
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0631166173

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The Spanish Civil War by Sheelagh M. Ellwood Pdf

The Spanish Civil War (1939-1939) was one of the bloodiest internecine conflicts of the modern era, resulting in a repressive and brutal military dictatorship which lasted for almost forty years. Starting with an account of the background to the wat, Sheelagh Ellwood traces the history of the Second Republic (1931-1936), culminating in the electoral victory of the Popular Front in 1936. The author then charts analyses the dramatic chain of events of the Civil War: the army uprising in Morocco in July 1936, the Nationalist advances in southern northwestern Spain, the protracted resistance of Catalonia and Madrid, and the final victory of Franco′s forces in the spring of 1939.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786257120869

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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Pdf

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet-with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes-in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death. Book Summary: Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) and-when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937-as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was declared an illegal organisation, and Orwell was consequently forced to flee. Having arrived in Barcelona on 26 December 1936, Orwell told John McNair, the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) representative there, that he had "come to Spain to join the militia to fight against Fascism." He also told McNair that "he would like to write about the situation and endeavour to stir working class opinion in Britain and France." McNair took him to the POUM barracks, where Orwell immediately enlisted. "Orwell did not know that two months before he arrived in Spain, the [Soviet law enforcement agency] NKVD's resident in Spain, Aleksandr Orlov, had assured NKVD Headquarters, 'the Trotskyist organisation POUM can easily be liquidated'-by those, the Communists, whom Orwell took to be allies in the fight against Franco."