Comintern Army : the international brigades and the Spanish Civil War / R. Dan Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, R. Dan, 1931- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, Foreign.

Spain.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, Russian.

Communist International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University of Kentucky Press, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Spain exploded into civil war in July 1936, a conflict whose roots were deep in the Spanish past became the arena for the violent political passions that divided Europe north of the Pyrenees. Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union intervened actively in the war, using Spain as a testing ground for their military equipment and techniques and their political ideologies. In this first in-depth study of the politics of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, R. Dan Richardson views the Brigades in the wider context of both the complex political-military alignments of Loyalist Spain

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Spanish Politics and Comintern Strategy; 2 Popular Front Militias; 3 The Comintern Raises an Army; 4 The Defense of Madrid; 5 The XIII, XIV, and XV Brigades; 6 A Military Overview; 7 Comintern Politics; 8 The Political Commissar; 9 Comintern Propaganda Instrument; 10 Dissidence, Desertion, and the Terror; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [217]-223.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6437-0

OCLC:

572029422