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The Importance of Communism in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
 Česalová, Petra ; Mejstřík, Martin (advisor) ; Kolenovská, Daniela (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with the question of importance of communism behind the International Brigades in the Spanish civil war. About 35.000 volunteers from fifty three countries of the world arrived in Spain between 1936 and 1939 in order to join the special military units created for them to support the fight of the local Republicans' cause. The Rightist propaganda over the years tended to describe them as cowards and "Stalin's puppets". Many of them were not able to return home after the end of the war and had to face persecution or some sort of discrimination. Appropriate homage was apart from few exceptions only paid to them by Spain on the sixtieth anniversary of the beginning of the civil war. The main aim of this paper thus is to challenge the propagandist hypothesis that all International Brigades' volunteers can be regarded as dedicated communists controlled by the Soviet Union. Via examination of the volunteers' motivation from selected countries of Europe and North and Latin America the author tries to analyze the role played by communism. The second part of the hypothesis is checked in the chapter focused on the motives and ways of the Soviet assistance to the Spanish Republic. The introduction provides a brief historiographic overview of the literature about the International...
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