International communism and the Spanish Civil War : solidarity and suspicion

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"--

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ISBN: 1107106273
ISBN: 9781107106277
ISBN: 9781316376928
ISBN: 1316376923
ISBN: 9781316378922
ISBN: 1316378926
ISBN: 1107514053
ISBN: 9781107514058
ISBN: 131637792X
ISBN: 9781316377925
ISBN: 1316374920
ISBN: 9781316374924
ISBN: 1316226905
ISBN: 9781316226902
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.