The Comintern in Spain Before the Civil War : Red Tide Rising / Gustavo Martín Asensio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asensio, Gustavo Martín, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union..

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

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

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Summary:

The Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939, has been written about widely and remains mired in antifascist, anti-communist, and historical memory controversies. A deep dive into the Soviet, British intelligence and other European archives, this new book brings the majority consensus among historians of the Second Republic into question and sheds new light on the scale of Soviet communist activity in Spain before the outbreak of war in July 1936. Providing an in-depth analysis of Comintern (RGASPI) and other European archival documentation, much of which has not been discussed until now, Gustavo Martín Asensio here demonstrates the growing and fundamentally subversive activity of the Comintern within the socialist union and party, the armed forces and cultural influencers which culminated in the spring of 1936.

Contents:

Foreword Stanley G. Payne (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Introduction 1. Mobilizing all our Forces: Comintern Operations in Spain, 1923-1936 2. Save the Children: The Comintern´s Victimization Narrative as a Cornerstone of the Popular Front Platform 3. A Vast and Concrete Ideological Penetration: The Comintern´s Publishing Conglomerate in Spain, 1931-1936 4. Star Pupils: A Transnational, Comparative Study of Comintern 'Army Work' in France and Spain, 1932-6 5. Schools of Communism: Revolutionary Opposition Groups in the Socialist Union UGT, 1932-5 6. 'They Paid for our Olympiad': The July 1936 Popular Olympiad in Barcelona as a Case Study in Comintern Mass Organizational Work Conclusion Epilogue Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350443389

1350443387

9781350443396

1350443395

9781350443372

1350443379

OCLC:

1428902616