El comunismo internacional y la Guerra Civil española

The Spanish Civil War was a crucial moment in the history of international communism and in the lives of communists. Many affirmed, then and later, that in Spain they lived their ideals more intensely, passionately and fully than anywhere else. Even for those who ended up leaving the communist party, the Spanish Civil War remained in many cases a defining moment in their lives and personal relationships, something that they frequently separated, or attempted to separate, from the more general Stalinist context. Lisa A. Kirschenbaum studies what roles the Spanish Civil War and the international communist movement played and how they mutually influenced each other. From the Moscow Lenin School, the Comintern institution where foreign communists were trained, and the Moscow News newspaper, to the International Brigades in whose ranks volunteers from all over the world came to fight, putting into practice the values of solidarity and equality. The Spanish Civil War will continue to be present during the Cold War in the international communist imaginary, especially among those who lived it directly or indirectly, to preserve the idea that its cause and its actions were still pure due to the many atrocities that could be revealed. of Stalin and communism during his leadership. The author has relied for this book on the information collected in different archives and official documents of the Comintern, but also through the personal stories of many of the protagonists of that historical period, through their letters, poems, songs..., cultural productions of all kinds, and the subsequent memories of many of them. The result, an original and enlightening vision, both of the Spanish Civil War and of the international communist movement.