The new book by the famous historian Alexander Vladlenovich Shubin is dedicated to the revolution and civil war in Spain in the 1930s. It was the "star hour" of Spanish history when it attracted the attention of the entire world, and the fate of the world depended on events in Madrid, Barcelona, on the battlefields, and in the factories of this country. Anarchists and fascists, conspirators and romantics, Stalinist agents and Western diplomats - this is an incomplete list of the heroes of this book. A.V. Shubin reconstructs the picture of the tangled events, drawing on extensive archival materials, most of which are published for the first time. In this book, we can also get acquainted with the positions of Spanish authors, which help to look at controversial issues from different perspectives. On the pages of the book, you can navigate through the labyrinths of political intrigues of the Spanish Republic and around it, experience the smoke of battles, and see people who knew what it was worth living for and how to choose their destiny, accompanying them in times of hope and years of disappointment. For us, the history of the civil war in Spain is also important because several thousand Soviet people participated in it. It was the beginning of armed resistance against fascism, which, despite the defeat of the Spanish Republic, culminated in Victory in Berlin in 1945.
The Spanish tragedy is a real story that is more dramatic than any novel.
For historians, political scientists, cultural scientists, as well as anyone interested in the history of the 20th century.
