In the service of Stalin : the Spanish Communists in exile, 1939-1945
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In the service of Stalin : the Spanish Communists in exile, 1939-1945
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
Available at 13 libraries
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Includes bibliography (p. [377]-399) and index
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Description
This is the epic story of the tens of thousands of communists exiled from Spain after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. With their iron discipline and fervent dedication to Stalin's cause, they did not hesitate, when the moment came in the Second World War, to throw themselves again into the struggle against fascism. In the Service of Stalin is the first full scholarly study of their experiences.
David Wingeate Pike examines the contribution of the Spanish communists to the resistance in France and recounts their sufferings in Mauthausen, the concentration camp in Austria to which most who were captured were consigned. He aso traces the experiences of those thousands who were admitted into the Soviet Union, where they fought in the Red Army or languished and perished in the prisons and slave camps of the Gulag.
Professor Pike's unparalleled access to the archives, many previously unexplored, and the information derived from his interviews with survivors combine to make this both an important addition to our knowledge of the Second World War and an enthralling, often moving account of the experiences of some of its participants.
Table of Contents
- The Spanish republicans in their defeat
- the communists in isolation
- in the shadow of the pact
- arrival in Russia and America
- in the hands of the Nazis
- birth of the Spanish Resistance in France
- Mauthausen, subsidiary of hell
- in Russia, from honeymeoon to holy war
- in France, inside the two camps
- war to the knife
- the liberation of the Southwest
- survival and liberation at Mauthausen
- rendezvous at Toulouse.
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