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International communism and the Spanish Civil War : solidarity and suspicion
- Title
- International communism and the Spanish Civil War : solidarity and suspicion / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, West Chester, PA.
- Author
- Kirschenbaum, Lisa A.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- xiii, 278 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Communists > History > 20th century
- Internationalism > Political aspects > History > 20th century
- Solidarity > Political aspects > History > 20th century
- Suspicion > Political aspects > History > 20th century
- Communists > Spain > History > 20th century
- Communists > Soviet Union > History > 20th century
- Spain > History > Political aspects. > Civil War, 1936-1939
- Spain > Relations > Soviet Union
- Soviet Union > Relations > Spain
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-5896
- ISBN
- 9781107106277 (hardback)
- 1107106273 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2015010668
- OCLC
- 906798249
- Author
- Kirschenbaum, Lisa A., author.
- Title
- International communism and the Spanish Civil War : solidarity and suspicion / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, West Chester, PA.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-5896