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Stalin and the Spanish Civil War

Daniel Kowalsky

Year: 2008, c2001.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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table of contents

Title Page

List of Illustrations and Archive Documents

List of Video Clips

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Soviet-Spanish Relations: Diplomacy Before and During the Spanish Civil War

[Intro]

1: Soviet and Comintern Policy in Spain Prior to July 1936

I: Soviet-Spanish Diplomacy: October 1917-July 1936

II: Comintern Activity in Spain Prior to 1936

2: Soviet Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil War

[Intro]

I: Soviet Diplomats and the Non-Intervention Committee

II: Stalin's Diplomats in the Republic

III: The Diplomats Recalled

3: The Spanish Republic's Diplomatic Mission to Moscow

[Intro]

I: Ambassador Pascua

II: Stagnation and Decline of the Pascua Mission

III: The Impoverished Republican Embassy

IV: The Crisis of Communications

V: Consequences of Neglect

Part II: The Campaigns of Solidarity and Soviet Humanitarian Aid to the Spanish Republic

[Intro]

4: The Campaigns of Solidarity in the USSR

I: The Present Historiography

II: The Comintern's Organization of an International Solidarity Movement

III: Five Fundraising Drives, 1936-1938

IV: The Role of the CPUSSR in Directing the Solidarity Campaigns

V: Soviet Humanitarian Assistance at the End of the War

5: The Evacuation of Spanish Children to the Soviet Union

I: Historiographic Problems

II: The Refugee Crisis in Republican Spain

III: The Evacuations to the USSR

IV: The Network of Homes for Spanish Children in the USSR

V: Soviet-style School and Leisure

VI: Spanish Children and Soviet Propaganda

VII: Abandoned and Stranded

Part III: Soviet Cultural Policy and the Spanish Republic

[Intro]

6: Soviet-Spanish Cultural Relations Prior to the Civil War

I: The Institutional Framework of Soviet Cultural Policy

II: Varieties of Individual Philo-Sovietism in Spain, 1928-36

III: VOKS: Cultural Exchange, Agit-prop, or Information Gathering?

7: The Soviet Agit-Prop Offensive in Republican Spain, 1936-39

I: The Dissemination of Soviet Agit-Prop in the Republican Zone

II: The Role of Soviet Cinema in the Republican Zone

III: The Anniversaries of the Revolution and Other Propaganda Events

8: The Soviet Home Front and Cultural Exchanges with the Republic

[Intro]

I: Soviet filmmakers in Spain

II: Spanish Culture in the USSR

Part IV: Soviet Military Assistance: Planning, Supply, and Compensation

[Intro]

9: Operation X

I: The Initiation of Operation X

II: The Logistics of Delivery

10: Soviet Hardware Supplied to the Republic

11: The Spanish Gold and Financing Soviet Military Aid

Part V: Soviet Advisors and Military Personnel in the Spanish War

[Intro]

12: Command Structure and Advisory Apparatus in Spain

I: The Republic Requests Advisors

II: The Appointment of Soviet Personnel

III: The Advisors in Republican Spain

13: General Activities of the Soviet Advisors

I: Organization of the Popular Army

II: Organization of the International Brigades

III: Military Industry Advisors

IV: Naval Advisors

V: Guerrilla Warfare, Military Intelligence, and Counter-Intelligence

VI: Political Commissars

VII: Communications Engineers and Advisors

VIII: The Linguistic Unit: Translators and Interpreters

14: Soviet Pilots in the Spanish Civil War

I: The State of the Republic's Air Forces

II: The First Soviet Pilots Arrive

III: Initial Soviet sorties in the Spanish war

IV: The Soviets Lose the Advantage

V: Problems of Training and Performance

VI: From Soviet to Spanish Pilots

15: Soviet Tank Crews and Tank Instructors

I: The First Soviet Tankers in Spain

II: The 1st Armored Brigade

III: The BT-5: A New Soviet Tank in the Spanish War

16: Success and Failure of Operation X

[Intro]

I: Conflict and Poor Performance Among the Soviet Advisors

II: Distrust, Reprimand, and Lack of Support from Moscow

III: The Fate of the Advisors

IV: The Soviet Advisors Assessed

Conclusion

Appendix A: An Essay on the Sources

I: Soviet Literature on the Spanish Civil War

[Intro]

1: Bibliographies and Historiographic Studies

2: Published Archival Documents

3: Soviet Memoir Accounts

4: Soviet and Post-Soviet Secondary Works

II: Spanish Contributions to the Historiography

III: Western Interpretations of the Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War

Appendix B: Spanish Historical Sources in the Russian Federation

[Intro]

I: Libraries

Russian State Library (former Lenin Library)

Russian State Library-Dissertations and Newspapers Branch-Khimki

Russian National Library-St. Petersburg State Historical Library-Moscow

II: Archives

State Archive of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii, or GARF)

Russian State Archive of Early Acts (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov, or RGADA)

Russian State Archive of the Economy (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv ekonomiki, or RGAE)

Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv literatury i iskusstva, or RGALI)

Russian State Military Archive (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv, or RGVA)

Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, or RGASPI; formerly Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniia i izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii—Russian Center for Preservation and Study of Records of Modern History, or RTsKhIDNI)

Russian State Military History Archive (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv, or RGVIA)

Russian State Historical Archive (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv, or RGIA)

Russian State Archive of the Navy (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Voenno-morskogo flota, or RGAVMF)

Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov, or RGAKFD)

Center for Preservation of Contemporary Documentation (Tsentr khraneniia sovremennoi dokumentatsii, or TsKhSD)

Center for Preservation of Historico-Documentary Collections (Tsentr khraneniia istoriko-dokumental'nykh kollektsii, TsKhIDK)

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation (Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Federatsii, AVP RF)

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Imperii, or AVPRI)

Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (Arkhiv Prezidenta Rossiiskoi Federatsii, or APRF)

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense (Tsentral'nyi arkhiv Ministerstva oborony, or TsAMO)

Central Archive of the Federal Security Service (Tsentral'nyi arkhiv Federal'noi sluzhby bezopasnosti, or TsA FSB Rossii)

III: Museums and Other Organizations

Museum of the Revolution (Muzei Revolut'sii, or MR)

German Anti-fascist Memorial Museum (Memorial'nyi muzei nemetskikh antifashistov, or MMNA)

Archive of War Medicine Documents in the War-Medicine Museum (Archiv Voennoi-meditsinskogo dokumentov Voennoi-meditsinskovo Muzeia, or ABMD-BMM)

Institute of War History-Moscow (Institut voinei istorii, or IVI) [Author: translator asks that you check this—is it "istorii voiny"?]

War Veterans Committee-Moscow (Komitet veteranov voiny)

Notes

Introduction

Part I: [Intro]

1: Soviet and Comintern Policy in Spain Prior to July 1936

2: Soviet Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil War

3: The Spanish Republic's Diplomatic Mission to Moscow

4: The Campaigns of Solidarity in the USSR

5: The Evacuation of Spanish Children to the Soviet Union

Part III: [Intro]

6: Soviet-Spanish Cultural Relations Prior to the Civil War

7: The Soviet Agit-Prop Offensive in Republican Spain, 1936-39

8: The Soviet Home Front and Cultural Exchanges with the Republic

9: Operation X

10: Soviet Hardware Supplied to the Republic

11: The Spanish Gold and Financing Soviet Military Aid

Part V: [Intro]

12: Command Structure and Advisory Apparatus in Spain

13: General Activities of the Soviet Advisors

14: Soviet Pilots in the Spanish Civil War

15: Soviet Tank Crews and Tank Instructors

16: Success and Failure of Operation X

Appendix A: An Essay on the Sources

Bibliography

Archival Materials

Spanish Archives

Russian Archives

Other Archives

Published Official Documents

USSR

United States

Italy

Great Britain

France

Germany

Published Sources (including unpublished secondary works)

Newspapers and Periodicals

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Stalin and the Spanish Civil War : by Daniel Kowalsky.

Author:

Kowalsky, Daniel, 1966-

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Stalin and the Spanish Civil War : by Daniel Kowalsky.
Kowalsky, Daniel, 1966-
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Subject Headings:

• Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953
• Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, Russian
• Spain -- Foreign relations -- 1931-1939
• Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1917-1945

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