THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

The final, revised, edition of Burnett Bolloten's exhaustive and indispensable, 50-year-long scholarly study of Republican/revolutionary politics in the Spanish Civil War ("The Grand Camouflage:, 1961; "The Spanish Revolution", 1979; "The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution", 1986), covers the entire period of the war from 1936 to 1939. Welsh-born Bolloten, initially a Communist Party fellow-traveller, was a war correspondent for United Press who witnessed at first hand the rise to power of the Stalin- and bourgeois liberal-backed Spanish Communist Party and how it successfully subverted and repressed the popular revolutionary process that resulted from the failed military-clerical-fascist pronunciamento of July 1936.

"Burnett Bolloten's T***he Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution*** is a monument of dedicated scholarship that is not likely to be replaced. The best study of the subject in any language, it merits a place beside Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth and Raymond Carr's Spain, 1808-1939 as a classic in the historiography of modern Spain."
--Paul Avrich, Queens College, City University of New York

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