Volunteers for the Revolution : The International Militia of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War /

Volunteers for the Revolution : The International Militia of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War /

That thousands of members of the International Brigades fought heroically 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 Obre...

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Main Author: Durgan, Andy (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 362.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Maps and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1 'Between the Bullet and the Lie'
  • 1 The Popular Front and the Civil War
  • 2 The POUM and the Revolution
  • 3 In Stalin's Shadow
  • 4 Homage to Catalonia in Perspective
  • 2 The International Brigades
  • 1 Birth of a Legend
  • 2 Comintern Army?
  • 3 The Role of the International Brigades
  • 4 'Long Live the Russians!'
  • 3 Neither Brussels nor Moscow
  • 1 Dissident Communists
  • 2 Left-Wing Socialists
  • 3 Communists and Jews
  • 4 Fleeing Hitler
  • 5 Italian Anti-fascists
  • 6 From Other Lands
  • 4 Into Combat
  • 1 To the Barricades
  • 2 The Militias
  • 3 To the Front
  • 4 'Fighters for Freedom'
  • 5 John Cornford and the Attack on Perdiguera
  • 5 The International Column
  • 1 The Formation of the International Lenin Group
  • 2 The International Lenin Group at the Front
  • 3 More Recruits for the International Column
  • 4 Full Moon at Tierz
  • 5 The Fall of Estrecho Quinto and Montearagón
  • 6 The Siege of Huesca
  • 1 The Fall of Leciñena
  • 2 The POUM and Militarisation
  • 3 The International Lenin Group in Crisis
  • 4 Huesca: October 1936
  • 5 The Failed Offensive
  • 6 The Arrival of an Enigma: Georges Kopp
  • 7 The International Labyrinth
  • 1 The Tower of Babel
  • 2 The IBRSU and the Civil War
  • 3 The SAPD
  • 4 The KPD(O)
  • 5 Real Trotskyists
  • 6 Trotskyist Militiamen
  • 8 Mika Etchebéhère and the Defence of Madrid
  • 1 Sigüenza
  • 2 The Joaquín Maurín Column
  • 3 The Lenin Battalion
  • 4 The Capitana
  • 5 'Unlike Other Women'
  • 9 'The Prototype of the Revolutionary Woman'
  • 1 Women and Revolution
  • 2 Militia Women
  • 3 International Women Volunteers
  • 4 The Martyrdom of Margarete Zimbal
  • 5 Rearguard
  • 10 The POUM and the Military Question
  • 1 'War at the Front and Socialist Revolution in the Rear'
  • 2 Military Democracy
  • 3 The Lenin Division
  • 4 The Composition of the Lenin Division
  • 5 Neither Arms, nor Offensive
  • 11 Consolidation of the International Militia of the POUM
  • 1 Composition and Presence of the International Volunteers
  • 2 New Recruits
  • 3 Changing Units
  • 4 The Josep Rovira Shock Battalion
  • 5 'Fighting Spirit, Self-Sacrifice and Tenacity'
  • 12 'Fight to the Death'
  • 1 The Reconquest of Arascués Ridge
  • 2 The Failed Attempt to Retake Vivel del Río
  • 3 The Assault on Loma del Manicomio
  • 4 Counterattack and Retreat
  • 13 The ILP Contingent
  • 1 The Organisation of the Contingent
  • 2 The Volunteers
  • 3 The Arrival of Eric Blair
  • 4 Torre Francesa
  • 5 Ermita de Salas
  • 14 The May Events
  • 1 'Franco's Accomplices
  • 2 International POUM Volunteers During the May Events
  • 3 The May Events At The Front
  • 4 The Death of Bob Smillie
  • 15 The June Offensive
  • 1 The 29th Division
  • 2 New Assault on Huesca
  • 3 The Loma Verde
  • 4 The Conquest of Loma de las Mártires
  • 5 A 'Dantesque Spectacle'
  • 16 The End of the 29th Division
  • 1 The Suppression of the POUM
  • 2 The Dissolution of the 29th Division
  • 3 The Fate of International Volunteers
  • 4 To the International Brigades
  • 5 The Hunt for 'Trotskyists' in the International Brigades
  • 6 The Persecution of Former POUM Volunteers in the Brigades
  • 17 'Capable of Any Crime'
  • 1 The Witch-Hunt
  • 2 Counterespionage
  • 3 The Detainees
  • 4 Interrogation and Ill-Treatment
  • 5 Resistance
  • 18 Spies, Traitors, and Other Suspects
  • 1 Real Spies
  • 2 Spying on the Blairs
  • 3 The Arrest of Georges Kopp
  • 4 'Tonight We Are Going to Shoot You!'
  • 19 No Moscow Trials in Barcelona
  • 1 Chaotic Repression
  • 2 Political Assassination
  • 3 Freedom
  • 4 1938: Deportations Continue
  • 5 The End of the Civil War
  • 6 Survivors and Missing Persons
  • 20 Between Hell and Freedom
  • 1 In the French Concentration Camps
  • 2 Towards Exile
  • 3 Prisoners of Fascist Italy
  • 4 In the Clutches of the Nazis
  • 21 Another War
  • 1 With the Resistance
  • 2 With the Allied Armies
  • 3 Georges Kopp: Secret Agent?
  • 4 Hans Reiter and La Nueve
  • 22 Epilogue
  • 1 Into the Political Desert
  • 2 Survivors of the Third Reich
  • 3 Other Lives
  • 4 George Orwell and the Cold War
  • 5 Bob Edwards and the KGB
  • Conclusions
  • Tables
  • Biographical Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Sources
  • Index.