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Article: Heroic Victims: Stalin's Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War.(Review) (book review)
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- Demokratizatsiya
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- June 22, 1999
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Heroic Victims: Stalin's Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War. Herbert Romerstein. Washington, DC: Council for the Defense of Freedom, 1994. 118 pp., paper.
"It is very difficult to write accurately about the Spanish [Civil] War," wrote George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia, "because of the lack of non-propagandist documents." Lionel Trilling added in the book's introduction that, in Orwell's view, "intellectuals did not think and that they did not really love the truth."
One of the questions that has prompted the most bitter academic dispute was, Were the International Brigades of idealistic Americans, Canadians, and others pure anti-fascist ...