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The Spanish Civil
War, the |
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In this compelling book Stanley G.
Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist
intervention in the revolution and civil war in Drawing on a very broad range of
Soviet and Spanish primary sources, including many only recently available,
Payne changes our understanding of Soviet and Communist intentions in Spain,
of Stalin's decision to intervene in the Spanish war, of the widely accepted
characterization of the conflict as the struggle of fascism against
democracy, and of the claim that Spain's war constituted the opening round of
World War I. The author arrives at a new view of the Spanish Civil War and
concludes not only that the Democratic Republic had many undemocratic
components but also that the position of the Communist Party was by no means
counterrevolutionary. Stanley G. Payne is Hilldale-Jaume
Vicens Vives Professor of
History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of fourteen
books, including The Spanish Revolution. |
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