´Mobilizing all our forces´: Comintern Operations in Spain 1923 – 1936

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Gustavo Martín Asensio

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This paper demonstrates that the adaptability of communist slogans and tactics before and after the Popular Front period never changed the central aim of the Comintern in Spain: To turn what they saw as an ongoing bourgeois-democratic revolution into a Communist-controlled proletarian revolution through the armed seizure of power. The standard Comintern playbook for achieving this in Spain, as it was elsewhere, is reflected in the sections of this paper: Work in the non-communist unions and among cultural influencers; pursuit of revolutionary agitation with maximum sensitivity to local conditions, training for armed insurrection and work in the army, and deployment of anti-fascist and popular fronts to achieve merger of the unions and youth sections under communist control. This paper completes a missing link in the literature by treating the early transition period to the Popular Front, never before fully covered.

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Martín Asensio, G. (2022). ´Mobilizing all our forces´: Comintern Operations in Spain 1923 – 1936. Aportes. Revista De Historia Contemporánea, 37(109). Recuperado a partir de https://www.revistaaportes.com/index.php/aportes/article/view/708
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Gustavo Martín Asensio

Ph.D. por la Universidad de Surrey, UK en diciembre 1999 en filología clásica. Su tesis, un estudio lingüístico del texto griego de los Hechos de los Apóstoles, se publicó en el Reino Unido en 2000. Publicó su primer estudio sobre la Segunda República y la Guerra Civil Española en 2020, “Puros Canarios en la Revolución. Eduardo Sanjuan Castro, un Activista Libertario en la España de los Años 30” en Revista de Historia Canaria, 202 (2020).