The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War.

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 753
Author(s):  
Peter J. Sehlinger ◽  
Peter N. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Abraham Lincoln

One Man's Education: A Testimony to Internationalism

1985 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-109
Author(s):  
Bill Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Union Organizer ◽  
Republican Government ◽  
The U.S

Bill Bailey was working as a union organizer in Hawaii in 1936 when the Spanish Civil War broke out. Fascist troops led by Franco rebelled against Spain's democratically elected Republican government. The U.S. government declared a policy of nonintervention that prohibited the shipment of arms to the Republican Loyalists and banned travel to Spain. This policy contributed to the Fascist cause and outraged many Americans, including Bailey. Early in 1937, Bailey joined a group of American volunteers forming the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, an unpaid and nonprofessional troop of men and women who chose to fight with the International Brigade alongside the Republican Loyalists. In this article, the complexity of internationalism is expressed through Bailey's commitment to support the Spanish democracy, a decision in which he places the international cause of fighting fascism above his nation's choice not to participate. Bailey shares his memories of that period and describes his reasons for choosing the path that led him to Spain.

The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War.

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 1717
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Whitfield ◽  
Peter N. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Abraham Lincoln

Through the prism of Spain. Socio-economic causes of different outcomes of Russian and Spanish civil wars

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
I. Rozinskiy ◽  
N. Rozinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Economic Well Being

The article examines the socio-economic causes of the outcome of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1936), which, as opposed to the Russian Civil War, resulted in the victory of the “Whites”. Choice of Spain as the object of comparison with Russia is justified not only by similarity of civil wars occurred in the two countries in the XX century, but also by a large number of common features in their history. Based on statistical data on the changes in economic well-being of different strata of Spanish population during several decades before the civil war, the authors formulate the hypothesis according to which the increase of real incomes of Spaniards engaged in agriculture is “responsible” for their conservative political sympathies. As a result, contrary to the situation in Russia, where the peasantry did not support the Whites, in Spain the peasants’ position predetermined the outcome of the confrontation resulting in the victory of the Spanish analogue of the Whites. According to the authors, the possibility of stable increase of Spanish peasants’ incomes was caused by the nation’s non-involvement in World War I and also by more limited, compared to Russia and some other countries, spending on creation of heavy (primarily military-related) industry in Spain.

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