WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY HISTORY 160 SEMINAR, Spring, 2016 Mondays 1:10-4 THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Nathanael Greene, 215 Public Affairs Center 685-2376 ngreene@wesleyan.edu Office hours: Wednesdays, 1:10-4 Books: Broad Street Books will have copies of the following: Required: Charles Esdaile, Spain in the Liberal Age: From Constitution to Civil War, 1808-1939 Jon Cowans, Modern Spain: A Documentary History Julián Casanova, The Spanish Republic and Civil War Arturo Barea, The Forging of a Rebel Stanley G Payne, Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977 George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia Recommended: Antonio Cazorla Sanchez, Franco Gerald Brenan, The Spanish Labyrinth Helen Graham, The Spanish Republic at War Michael Seidman, Republic of Egos Important recent studies: Stanley G Payne, The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936 Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust Javier Moreno-Luzón, Modernizing the Nation, Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow Manuel Álvarez Tardío, The Second Spanish Republic Revisited Stanley G Payne and Jesús Palacios, Franco Please note that much of your reading will be selected from among titles suggested for each class. All of the suggested titles should be available in Olin Library, but only those books listed above as required will be placed on reserve. It is assumed that students will frequently be reading from different works for each class. Students should feel free to choose relevant works from the library's collection that do not appear on this syllabus, and you are specifically encouraged to devote time to browsing in the collection. HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -2- Papers: Each student will submit three short papers and a major research paper. The three short papers will be due in class on the date stipulated and will be devoted to questions indicated below. These papers must be brief, no more than two pages of text, double-spaced, 12 point font; a third page may be used for notes. These papers are due at the beginning of class on February 8, 15, and 22. In addition, very brief reports - no more than one page - will be due on the reading accomplished by the student in preparation for class in the weeks when a paper is not required; these reports will not be graded. These reports are due on February 1, February 29, March 21 and 28, and April 4. Papers and reports should be submitted by e-mail to ngreene@wesleyan.edu The research paper, devoted to a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor no later than March 3 will be due in its final form on Friday, May 13, as scheduled by the Registrar. First drafts of the research papers will be circulated prior to classes scheduled for April 18 and 25, and May 2 for critical comment and discussion at those classes. These drafts must be circulated to all members of the seminar by e-mail no later than 48 hours prior to the seminar, i.e., no later than Saturday evening. Examples and suggestions concerning research papers are offered on pages 10-15. Oral Presentations: Every student will serve, at least once, either as a reporter or a critic, at one of the classes described below. At the sessions of March 21 and 28, and April 4, the seminar will divide into four groups. Each group will be responsible for report and discussion on a work or works chosen from lists indicated below. In addition, the first draft of a research paper will receive detailed comment from a student assigned to that task at the classes scheduled for April 18 and 25, and May 2. Examinations: There will be no examinations in this course. Website: “Moodle,” to be found in your Electronic Portfolio. Prerequisites: There are no course prerequisites for this seminar, but students who have not taken college-level courses in modern European history should become familiar with the history of Europe in the period from 1900 to 1945 by reading in a reliable textbook in the first weeks of the semester. By way of example, these texts might be useful: R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton, A History of the Modern World Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century Robert Paxton, Europe in the Twentieth Century John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -3- Attendance at every class is mandatory; absences will be excused only for illness or emergencies. Papers must be submitted on the date due or they will not be accepted in the absence of illness or emergency. SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND READINGS JANUARY 25: ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING Article from The New York Times, “Spaniards at Last Confront the Ghost of Franco,” November 22, 2002, and Cary Nelson, “The Spanish Civil War” FEBRUARY 1: SPAIN FROM 1868 TO 1931: A GENERAL OVERVIEW Charles Esdaile, Spain in the Liberal Age, chapters 7-13, or Gerald Brenan, The Spanish Labyrinth, Parts I and II Jon Cowans, Modern Spain: A Documentary History Liberal Principles (1868-1869) El Estado Catalan, “On Federalism” (1870) An Anarchist Manifesto (1873) Clarín, “Hunger in Andalusia” (1883) Valentí Almirall, “Spain Such as It Is” (1887) Pablo Iglesias, “The Social Revolution” (1892) Enric Prat de la Riba, “Compendium of Catalanist Doctrine”(1894) Pablo Iglesias, “Our Bourgeoisie” (1898) Sabino de Arana, “What Are We?” (1895) Alejandro Lerroux, “Rebels, Rebels” (1906) Spanish Bishops, “Against the Existence of Secular Schools” (1909) Julián Juderías, “The Black Legend” (1914) José Ortega y Gasset, “Invertebrate Spain” (1922) Miguel Primo de Rivera, “The Barcelona Manifesto” (1923) “Platform of the Patriotic Union” (1928) Alfonso XIII, “Message of Renunciation” (1931) HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -4- FEBRUARY 8: THE SECOND REPUBLIC, 1931-1936: INTERPRETATIONS Paper topic: How do you explain the collapse of the Spanish Republic? Julián Casanova, The Spanish Republic and Civil War, Part I, or Charles Esdaile, Spain in the Liberal Age, chapters 14 and 15, or Gerald Brenan, The Spanish Labyrinth, Part III, or Helen Graham, The Spanish Republic At War, Introduction and Ch 1,or Stanley G Payne, Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977, chapters 1-3, or Stanley G Payne, The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936, chapters 1-10 and, in any case, Arturo Barea, The Forging of a Rebel, Part III, “The Clash”, pages 433- 516, and Jon Cowans, Modern Spain: A Documentary History Spanish Bishops, “On the Proposed Constitution” (1931) Manual Azaña, “Spain Has Ceased to Be Catholic” (1931) “Parliamentary Debate on Women’s Suffrage” (1931) The 1931 Constitution” Fernando de los Ríos, “The Republican Education Program” (1937) La Pasionaria, “From Childhood to Maturity” (1966) El Debate, “A Large Catholic majority” (1933) José Antonio Primo de Rivera, “Ideas of the Falange” (1934) José Antonio Primo de Rivera, “Feminine Dignity” (1935) El Socialista, “On the Victory of the Popular Front” (1936) FEBRUARY 15: THE UPRISING Paper topic: How did the Nationalists justify the uprising? Do you find any credibility to their justification? Julián Casanova, The Spanish Republic and Civil War, chapter 6, or Charles Esdaile, Spain in the Liberal Age, chapter 16 Stanley G Payne, Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977, chapters 4-9, or Stanley G Payne, The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, chapter 13 Paul Preston, Franco, chapters I-XII, or Sheelagh Ellwood, Franco, chapters 1-4 Antonio Cazorla Sanchez, Franco, chapters 1 and 2 Documents: Ramiro Ledesma, “The Voice of Spain” José Antonio Primo de Rivera, “Total Feeling” and “Bread and Justice” HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -5- “Guidelines of the Falange,” “Manifesto of the Bloque Nacional”, “Manifesto by General Francisco Franco,” “Speech by the Monarchist Poet José Maria Pemán, ” Jon Cowans, Modern Spain: A Documentary History Spanish Bishops, “On the War in Spain” (1937) FEBRUARY 22: THE REVOLUTION Paper topic: Did a revolution occur? If so, whose was it? Julián Casanova, The Spanish Republic and Civil War, Chapter 7, and George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chs V, IX-XIV, and/or Arturo Barea, The Forging of a Rebel, Part III, “The Clash”, pages 516582, and/or Helen Graham, The Spanish Republic At War, Chs 2-5, and/or Michael Seidman, Republic of Egos, Ch 1, “Militancy” and/or Stanley G Payne, The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, chapters 11, 12, 14, and Conclusion Jon Cowans, Modern Spain: A Documentary History “Ideological Struggles of the Left” (1936, 1937) “Decree Closing Religious Institutions” (1936) and Ronald Radosh, ed., Spain Betrayed, Chapter I, “1936” FEBRUARY 29: THE WAR George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chs I-VIII, and/or Arturo Barea, The Forging of a Rebel, Part III, “The Clash”, pages 583-751, and Julián Casanova, The Spanish Republic and Civil War, Chapters 8-11 and Epilogue, or Helen Graham, The Spanish Republic At War, Chs 6 & 7, and/or Michael Seidman, Republic of Egos, Ch 2 “Opportunism”, Ch 3 “Cynicism” and Ch 4, “Survival” Documents: General Millan Astray, “Long Live Death!” Colonel José Moscado, “The Alcazar” Film, “To Die in Madrid,” to be shown at beginning of class “The Southworth Collection of Posters” online at http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/intro.html Robert Capa, Heart of Spain: Robert Capa’s Photographs HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -6- John Tisa, ed., The Palette and the Flame: Posters of the Spanish Civil War Raymond Carr, ed., The Spanish Civil War in Pictures Abel Paz, The Spanish Civil War MARCH 21: EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS The seminar will divide into four groups for this meeting, with subjects and readings as indicated below. Each group will select from among these readings, but it may look for other studies to be found in Olin Library. Great Britain and France: Documents: Speech by Léon Blum, Luna Park, 1936 Léon Blum, excerpts from “To Be A Socialist” and “For all Mankind” “The American Ambassador in France on the reasons why the Blum government refuses to supply arms to the Spanish Republic, 27 July 1936" “Sir George Clerk warns Yvon Delbos of the dangers of French intervention in the Spanish Civil War" British diplomatic documents G. Clerk to the Foreign Office, 8/7/36 G. Clerk to the Foreign Office, 8/8/36 G. Clerk to the Foreign Office, 8/11/36 Thomas to Cadogan, 8/11/36 Minute by Sargent, 8/12/36 Eden to G. Clerk, 8/24/36 German diplomatic documents * Welczeck to the Foreign Ministry, 8/6/36 Welczeck to the Foreign Ministry, 8/10/36 Welczeck to the Foreign Ministry, 8/21/36 Forster to the Foreign Ministry, 12/11/36 Welczeck to the Foreign Ministry, 12/24/36 Tom Buchanan, Britain and the Spanish Civil War Jill Edwards, The British Government and the Spanish Civil War W. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt, The Policy of Simmering Jon Cowans, Modern Spain: A Documentary History “British parliamentary debates on Spain” (1937) David W. Pike, Conjecture, Propaganda, and Deceit Nathanael Greene, Crisis and Decline, Ch 2 HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -7- Joel Colton, Léon Blum, Humanist in Politics, Chs VII and VIII Julian Jackson, The Popular Front in France, Ch 7 United States: Harry Fisher, Comrades F. Jay Taylor, The United States and the Spanish Civil War Allen Guttmann, The Wound in the Heart Richard P. Traina, American Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil War Douglas Little, Malevolent Neutrality Alun Kenwood, The Spanish Civil War: A Cultural and Historical Reader, pages 265-287 Germany and Italy: Jon Cowans, Modern Spain: A Documentary History “Germany and the Spanish Civil War” (1936-1937) Robert Whealey, Hitler and Spain Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis John F. Coverdale, Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini R. J. B. Bosworth, Mussolini Soviet Union: David Cattell, Soviet Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil War Robert Tucker, Stalin Ronald Radosh, ed., Spain Betrayed, Chapters II and III Stanley G Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria Barcelona, November 1, 1938 Note: For Germany, Great Britain, the United States, and France, you will find it useful to look through the published diplomatic documents pertaining to the Spanish Civil War, e.g., Documents on German Foreign Policy: The Spanish Civil War. MARCH 28. PARTICIPANTS AND WITNESSES The seminar will again divide into four groups for this meeting, with subjects and readings as indicated below. Each group may select from among these readings, but it may look for other studies to be found in Olin Library. A View from the Right Luis Bolin, Spain: The Vital Years Harold Cardozo, The March of a Nation HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -8- E. Allison Peers, Spain in Eclipse Georges Bernanos, A Diary of My Times Jose Maria Gironella, The Cypresses Believe in God A View from the Left Arturo Barea, The Forging of a Rebel, Part III, “The Clash”, pages 613751 Arthur Koestler, Spanish Testament Felix Morrow, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain Julio Alvarez del Vayo, Freedom’s Battle Hank Rubin, Spain’s Cause Was Mine: A Memoir of an American Medic Harry Fisher, Comrades Upton Sinclair, No pasaran! They Shall Not Pass! Dolores Ibarruri, They Shall Not Pass Arthur H. Landis, Death in the Olive Groves: American Volunteers Dutchess of Atholl, Searchlight on Spain Leon Trotsky, The Spanish Revolution, 1931-1939 Observers and Reporters Franz Borkenau, The Spanish Cockpit Robert Colodny, The Struggle for Madrid William Foss and Cecil Gerahty, The Spanish Arena Alvah Bessie, Men in Battle Ralph Bates, Of Legendary Time Peter Stansky, Journey to the Frontier Journalists’ accounts, e.g., The New York Times, articles by Herbert Matthews Writers and Activists André Malraux, Man’s Hope Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls Claude Bowers, My Mission to Spain [United States Ambassador] Elliot Paul, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town Constancia de la Mora, In Place of Splendour Herbert Matthews, Two Wars and More to Come Herbert Matthews, The Yoke and the Arrows Valentine Cunningham, Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War Ruiz Vilaplana, Burgos Justice: A Year’s Experience in Nationalist Spain Murray Sperber, And I Remember Spain: A Spanish Civil War Anthology Anna Louise Strong, Spain in Arms Arnold Lunn, Spanish Rehearsal S. Mangini, Memories of Resistance: Women’s Voices from the Spanish Civil War HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -9- APRIL 4. INTERPRETATIONS: HISTORIANS AND BIOGRAPHERS The seminar will again divide into four groups for this meeting, with subjects and readings as indicated below. Each group may select from among these readings, but it may look for other studies to be found in Olin Library. Histories: Frank Jellinek, The Civil War in Spain Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War Gabriel Jackson, The Republic and Civil War in Spain Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust Stanley G Payne, The Spanish Revolution Stanley G Payne, Spain’s First Democracy Pierre Broué and Emile Témime, The Revolution and Civil War in Spain Patricia van der Esch, Prelude to War Dante Puzzo, Spain and the Great Powers, 1936-1941 Raymond Carr, The Spanish Tragedy: The Civil War in Perspective Paul Preston, ed., Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939 Ronald Fraser, Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War George R. Esenwein, The Spanish Civil War in Context, 1931-1939 Sheelagh Ellwood, The Spanish Civil War José Sanchez, The Spanish Civil War as a Religious Tragedy Peter Wyden, The Passionate War: A Narrative History Harry Browne, Spain’s Civil War Richard Robinson, The Origins of Franco’s Spain, 1931-1936 Wayne H. Bowen, Spaniards and Nazi Germany Burnett Balloten, The Spanish Civil War Raymond Carr, The Civil War in Spain General Franco and the Nationalists: Antonio Cazorla Sanchez, Franco George Hills, Franco: The Man and His Nation Paul Preston, Franco J. W. D. Trythall, Franco Juan Fusi, Franco: A Biography Herbert R. Southworth, The Myth of the Franco Crusade Spain, Ministerio Fiscal, The General Cause: The Red Domination of Spain Luis Bolin, Spain: The Vital Years Robert Brasillach, Histoire de la guerre d’Espagne Gregorio Marañón, The Liberal in the Looking Glass HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -10- Herbert R. Southworth, Conspiracy and the Spanish Civil War: The Brainwashing of Francisco Franco Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism Helen Graham, Socialism and War Helen Graham and martin Alexander, eds., The French and Spanish Popular Fronts Paul Heywood, Marxism and the Failure of Organized Socialism in Spain E. H. Carr, The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War David Cattell, Communism and the Spanish Civil War Burnett Bolloten, The Grand Camouflage: The Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939 José Peirats, Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War Robert Alexander, The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War RObert Kern, Red Years, Black Years: Spanish Anarchism, 1911-1937 Sam Dolgoff, The Anarchist Collectives Martha Ackelsberg, Free Women of Spain Michael Seidman, Workers Against Work International Gerald Howson, Arms for Spain: the Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War Michael W. Jackson, Springen Sparrows: The International Brigades Stanley Weintraub, The Last Great Cause: Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War Shirley Mangini González, Memories of Resistance: Women’s Voices from the Spanish Civil War Vincent Brome, The International Brigades Verle B. Johnston, Legions of Babel: The International Brigades __________________________________________________________________________ APRIL 11: NO CLASS. RESEARCH AND PREPARATION OF PAPERS. APRIL 18: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS OF PAPERS. APRIL 25: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS OF PAPERS. MAY 2: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS OF PAPERS. _______________________________________________________________ HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -11- SOME TOPICS, MEANT AS EXAMPLES AND SUGGESTIONS ONLY: (a) International: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade French Diplomacy and the Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War The Origins of Non-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War Ireland and the Spanish Civil War British Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil War The United States and the Spanish Civil War Soviet Motives and Actions in the Spanish Civil War The French Left (or Right) and the Spanish Civil War The International Brigades The Non-Intervention Committee Comparison of the French and Spanish Popular Fronts Study a major European or American leader’s response to the Spanish Civil War, e.g., Léon Blum, Anthony Eden, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin Roosevelt [British, German, and French diplomatic documents are published and may be consulted easily. German documents are translated into English.] (b) Compare Accounts by contemporaries, selecting from the list for the class of March 28. (c) Study the role of a prominent figure, institution, or political party: Indalecio Prieto and Spanish Socialism Francisco Largo Caballero and Spanish Socialism Manuel Azaña, President of the Republic José Maria Gil Robles and the CEDA Alexandro Lerroux and the Radical Party Juan Negrín, the Republic’s last Prime Minister. Buenaventura Durruti, celebrated Anarchist leader Franco’s other insurgent generals – Mola, Sanjuro, and Queipo de Llano The Carlists and/or the Falange during the Civil War Anarchism in Barcelona, 1936-1937 The sudden rise of the Communist Party Actions of key figures in the Roman Catholic Church in Spain and the Vatican Socialist Unions [UGT] and/or Anarchist Unions [CNT] The POUM [Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification] HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -12- (d) Analyze the military role and contributions of Germany, Italy, or the Soviet Union. (e) Examine the ways in which the American or European press reported the war. The New York Times would be one example, but Olin has runs of major weeklies and monthlies as well. (f) Examine the importance of Catalonia and/or the Basque country in the origins and conduct of the war. (g) Undertake a review of major historical studies of the Civil War, beginning with the year 1961. (h) Study representations of the Civil War in literature, in Spain or elsewhere, beginning with the 1930’s, or simply limit your study to a specific period of time. (i) If you wish to go beyond the war, many subjects suggest themselves, e.g, representations of Spain in the press at key moments in the 1940’s and 1950’s, or ways in which Franco used memory of the war to assist in his retention of power. Paper topics selected by students in previous versions of this seminar: Women in the Spanish Civil War Moroccans in the Spanish Civil War Fascist Women’s Perspectives and Motivations Guerilla Groups in the Spanish Republic Propaganda and Recruitment Posters Propaganda Reactions to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade The Barcelona Uprising of 1937 Carlists The Anarchist Collectives Anarchist Collectives and “Workers Against Work”The Condor Legion and Nazi Involvement in Spain International Fascist Brigades Resistance in the Nationalist Zone Basque and Catalan Involvement in the Spanish Civil War Léon Blum and the Spanish Civil War Buenaventura Durruti The American Press and the Spanish Civil War Manual Azaña and the Spanish Civil War Spanish Fascism Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War The Soviet Influence in Spain The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War Ireland and the Spanish Civil War HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, The Army of Africa American Policy and the Spanish Civil War Literary Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War The Abraham Lincoln Brigade The International Brigades Photographs of the Spanish Civil War Peasant Resistance in the Spanish Civil War W. H. Auden and the Spanish Civil War Socialist Discord: Prieto vs. Largo Caballero The NY Times and the Spanish Civil War Republic and Church International Brigades Franco's Military Britain and the Spanish Civil War Unamuno and Lorca The USSR and the Spanish Civil War Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War Intellectuals at War Barcelona in 1936-7 Representations of Guernika The US and the Spanish Civil War Jews and the Spanish Civil War Franco and Hitler, 1940 International Brigades Anarchist Women Catalan Independence Portugal and the Spanish Civil War Fanelli and Anarchism Historiographical Perspectives on the Left Irish Volunteer Brigades Anarchist Propaganda Britain and Non-Intervention in the Civil War Study of a town: Baena in the Civil War Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera US Press Coverage of the War Franco's European Foreign Policy, 1936-1945 SPRING, 2016 -13- HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 -14- Anarchism in Catalonia, 1936-1939 Ireland's Involvement in the Spanish Civil War Death of Federico Garcia Lorca Intellectuals in the Spanish Civil War Durruti Songs of the Spanish Civil War Spanish Communists and the Civil War Beatifications of Spanish Clergy May Days in Barcelona USSR in Spain Basque Separatist Movement Republican Refugees in France Mexico and the Spanish Civil War May Days in Barcelona, 1937 The United States and the Spanish Civil War Journalism and Censorship Modernism and Modernity in Spain Political Theater and the Spanish Civil War Franco's Rhetoric, 1936-1939 The Impact of the Spanish Civil War in the USSR The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War Writers and the Spanish Civil War Franco's Relationship with Monarchists Stalin and the Spanish Civil War Narratives of Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War Discourse of Empire: Primo de Rivera, Falange Visual Representations of the War Children and the Spanish Civil War The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Dorlores Ibarruri The Comintern and the PCE HISTORY 160, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, SPRING, 2016 - 15 Anarchist Collectives in Aragon, Madrid, and Catalonia The Contemporary Spanish Right and its Views of the Civil War Franco and the Falange during the Spanish Civil War George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War Military Engagements in the Spanish Civil War American Media and the Spanish Civil War The Battle of Madrid: Posters and Visual Art France and the Spanish Civil War Ireland and the Spanish Civil War International Influence on the Spanish Civil War Franco and Nazi Germany Italy and the Spanish Civil War Franco's Propaganda Posters Republicans in Exile The Siege of Madrid Franco and the Spanish Military: The Contest for Power Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War Portugal and the Spanish Civil War Léon Blum and the Spanish Civil War Real Madrid vs. Barcelona FC Guernica/Picasso’s Guernica Franco’s Rhetoric Santiago Carrillo and Spanish Communism Literature of the Spanish Civil War Catholic Basques in the Spanish Civil War Anarchism in Barcelona and Aragon The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Anti-fascist Views of the Spanish Civil War