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Books : Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War (Annals of Communism Series)In association with Amazon.comfrom: Yale University Press  List Price: $48.00 Amazon.com's Price: $38.40 You Save: $9.60 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 946.081347 EAN: 9780300089813 ISBN: 0300089813 Label: Yale University Press Manufacturer: Yale University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 592 Publication Date: June 01, 2001 Publisher: Yale University Press Studio: Yale University Press Sales Rank: 92300 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Spanish Civil War has long been the stuff of legend. Thousands of brave young men from all over the Western world, most of them organized by their local Communist parties, rushed to Spain to support the democratic Republic against right- wing forces led by rebellious generals in the Spanish officer corps. Although the Republic was eventually defeated, some observers believed that the effort to defend it was a selfless undertaking of the international Communist movement and the Soviet Union—a noble crusade against Hitler, Mussolini, and their Spanish puppet Franco. This book presents a very different view of the role of the Soviet Union in this war. Based on previously unavailable Moscow archives, it provides the first full documentation of that country's duplicitous and self-serving activities. Documents in the book reveal that the Soviet Union not only swindled the Spanish Republic out of millions of dollars through arms deals but also sought to take over and run the Spanish economy, government, and armed forces in order to make Spain a Soviet possession, thereby effectively destroying the foundations of authentic Spanish antifascism. The documents also shed light on many other disputed episodes of the war: the timing of the Republican request for assistance from the Soviet Union; the rise and fall of the International Brigades; the internal workings of the Comintern and its influence on Spain; and much more. Authoritative and startling in the new information it offers, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in Soviet foreign policy or the Spanish Civil War. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Read Beevor's The Battle for Spain insteadI've written a few comments on other people's reviews, but after reading both Mr. Anthony Beevor's 'The Battle for Spain' and much of Mr. Ronald Radosh's framing commentary, I want to include my own review. I gave this book one star, even though the choice of documents and the picture the documents present are first rate. However, as Mr. Grover Furr suggests in his own review, the documents all too often contradict the framing commentary. 'Spain Betrayed' is part of the excellent ... Read More Rating:  - valuable documents on Communist role in SpainDon't let Ron Radosh's move to the political right discredit the value of this book from a leftwing point of view. The documents are of value in themselves. To over-simplify a bit, there were really three sides to the Spanish Civil War. It wasn't just a civil war but a working class revolution. Spain in the '30s had a vast revolutionary labor movement. The industrialists, land-owning oligarchy, Church leaders and generals backed a violent "final solution" ... Read More Rating: - RIPS AWAY THE ROTTING SCAB OF STALINISMRon Radosh, whose own uncle, Irving Keith died in fighting the Fascists in Spain, has written a gripping, if ponderous, terrifying if also mundane account of the Stalinist grip on the Republic of Spain. In a series of documents, culled from the former Soviet archives, Radosh spins a thoroughly believeable tale of cunning, avarice, deceit and betrayal not only of the Spanish Republic, but of the thousands of idealistic young men - the vast majority of them Communists - who flocked to Spain ... Read More Rating:  - Important documentary evidence of Stalin's criminalityThis is another wonderful volume in the very important Annals of Communism series published by Yale University Press. I can't praise this series enough for the service they have provided us in every one of these volumes. This book provides, in English translation, 81 important documents of the true Soviet actions in its participation in the Spanish Civil War. Historians will have to make the final judgments and assessments of this material. But I am glad to have the myth of the idealistic ... Read More Rating: - A poor workThis work contains many false statements, poor use of evidence, and just plain incompetence. Far from showing Soviet "betrayal," these 81 documents make the Comintern, the International Brigades, and the massive Soviet aid to Spain appear in an extremely positive light. Reading the documents alone, and ignoring Radosh's "commentary," any objective person will come away with tremendous respect for the communist effort in the Spanish Civil War, not only by the Comintern and the justly famed International ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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