International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion

ISBN-13: 9781107514058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 292 str.

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

Opis

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

Recenzje

'This study should certainly be read by historians of the Spanish Civil War; as well as by scholars of antifacism and Stalinism. More importantly, it should be considered by those studying the Comintern, especially with regard to transnationalism.' Oleksa Drachewych, Europe-Asia Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: being communist; Part I. International Communists and the Soviet Union, 1930–6: 1. Learning to be Bolshevik; 2. Imagining, seeing, feeling the revolution; Part II. Being Bolshevik, Making History in Spain, 1936–9: 3. 'All advanced and progressive humanity'; 4. True Bolsheviks and Trotskyite bastards; 5. Best comrades, tough guys, and respectable communists; Part III. International Communists and the Memory of the Spanish Civil War, 1939–53: 6. From 'our war' to the great fatherland war; 7. The early Cold War and the fate of 'progressive humanity'; Epilogue: internationalism and the Spanish Civil War after Stalin.