The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism FIRST EDITION

Payne, Stanley G.

Edité par Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004

First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiv, 400pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Bound in brown paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is square and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the early 1930s to the end of the civil war in 1939. 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 II. 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.(Publisher). N° de réf. du vendeur 15890

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and...
Éditeur : Yale University Press, New Haven
Date d'édition : 2004
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Near fine
Etat de la jaquette : near fine
Edition : First Edition.