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International communism and the Spanish Civil War : solidarity and suspicion /

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 Internati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirschenbaum, Lisa A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
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 > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Political aspects.
Spain > Relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Relations > Spain.
Table of 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.