Andy Durgan: Volunteers for the Revolution, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Volunteers for the Revolution tells the story of foreign combatants who fought **heroically against fascism with the anti-Stalinist Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM) in the Spanish Civil War. **That thousands of members of the International Brigades fought against fascism during the Spanish Civil War is well known. Far less known---aside from the notable exception of George Orwell---is the presence of five hundred foreign combatants in the militias of the anti-Stalinist Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM). This book provides, for the first time, an exhaustive study of these volunteers: their socio-political background, their participation in the Civil War and revolution, their role as victims of Stalinist slander and repression, and their fate during the Second World War and beyond.