International Communism and the Spanish Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Communism and the Spanish Civil War write by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. This book was released on 2015-07-28. International Communism and the Spanish Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism write by Stanley G. Payne. This book was released on 2008-10-01. The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Spain Betrayed
Spain Betrayed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spain Betrayed write by Ronald Radosh. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Spain Betrayed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War
The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War write by Edward Hallett Carr. This book was released on 1984. The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The International Brigades
The International Brigades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The International Brigades write by Giles Tremlett. This book was released on 2020-10-15. The International Brigades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** 'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of purpose and potential glory, these disparate groups of idealistic young men and women formed a volunteer army of a size and type unseen since the Crusades, known as the International Brigades. Were they heroes or fools? Saints or bloodthirsty adventurers? And what exactly did they achieve? In this magisterial history, Giles Tremlett tells – for the first time – the story of the Spanish Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group. Drawing on the Brigades' archives in Moscow, as well as first-hand accounts, The International Brigades captures all the human drama of a historic mission to halt fascist expansion in Europe.
