Volunteers for the Revolution

Andy Durgan has published extensively about the Spanish Civil War and its origins, including The Spanish Civil War (2007), Comunismo, revolución y movimiento obrero en Cataluña 1920-1936. Los origines del POUM (2016), and The POUM. Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution (2025).

• Acknowledgements List of Maps and Tables Abbreviations Maps Introduction 1 ‘Between the Bullet and the Lie’ 1 The Popular Front and the Civil War 2 The POUM and the Revolution 3 In Stalin’s Shadow 4 Homage to Catalonia in Perspective 2 The International Brigades 1 Birth of a Legend 2 Comintern Army? 3 The Role of the International Brigades 4 ‘Long Live the Russians!’ 3 Neither Brussels nor Moscow 1 Dissident Communists 2 Left-Wing Socialists 3 Communists and Jews 4 Fleeing Hitler 5 Italian Anti-fascists 6 From Other Lands 4 Into Combat 1 To the Barricades 2 The Militias 3 To the Front 4 ‘Fighters for Freedom’ 5 John Cornford and the Attack on Perdiguera 5 The International Column 1 The Formation of the International Lenin Group 2 The International Lenin Group at the Front 3 More Recruits for the International Column 4 Full Moon at Tierz 5 The Fall of Estrecho Quinto and Montearagón 6 The Siege of Huesca 1 The Fall of Leciñena 2 The POUM and Militarisation 3 The International Lenin Group in Crisis 4 Huesca: October 1936 5 The Failed Offensive 6 The Arrival of an Enigma: Georges Kopp 7 The International Labyrinth 1 The Tower of Babel 2 The IBRSU and the Civil War 3 The SAPD 4 The KPD(O) 5 Real Trotskyists 6 Trotskyist Militiamen 8 Mika Etchebéhère and the Defence of Madrid 1 Sigüenza 2 The Joaquín Maurín Column 3 The Lenin Battalion 4 The Capitana 5 ‘Unlike Other Women’ 9 ‘The Prototype of the Revolutionary Woman’ 1 Women and Revolution 2 Militia Women 3 International Women Volunteers 4 The Martyrdom of Margarete Zimbal 5 Rearguard 10 The POUM and the Military Question 1 ‘War at the Front and Socialist Revolution in the Rear’ 2 Military Democracy 3 The Lenin Division 4 The Composition of the Lenin Division 5 Neither Arms, nor Offensive 11 Consolidation of the International Militia of the POUM 1 Composition and Presence of the International Volunteers 2 New Recruits 3 Changing Units 4 The Josep Rovira Shock Battalion 5 ‘Fighting Spirit, Self-Sacrifice and Tenacity’ 12 ‘Fight to the Death’ 1 The Reconquest of Arascués Ridge 2 The Failed Attempt to Retake Vivel del Río 3 The Assault on Loma del Manicomio 4 Counterattack and Retreat 13 The ILP Contingent 1 The Organisation of the Contingent 2 The Volunteers 3 The Arrival of Eric Blair 4 Torre Francesa 5 Ermita de Salas 14 The May Events 1 ‘Franco’s Accomplices 2 International POUM Volunteers During the May Events 3 The May Events At The Front 4 The Death of Bob Smillie 15 The June Offensive 1 The 29th Division 2 New Assault on Huesca 3 The Loma Verde 4 The Conquest of Loma de las Mártires 5 A ‘Dantesque Spectacle’ 16 The End of the 29th Division 1 The Suppression of the POUM 2 The Dissolution of the 29th Division 3 The Fate of International Volunteers 4 To the International Brigades 5 The Hunt for ‘Trotskyists’ in the International Brigades 6 The Persecution of Former POUM Volunteers in the Brigades 17 ‘Capable of Any Crime’ 1 The Witch-Hunt 2 Counterespionage 3 The Detainees 4 Interrogation and Ill-Treatment 5 Resistance 18 Spies, Traitors, and Other Suspects 1 Real Spies 2 Spying on the Blairs 3 The Arrest of Georges Kopp 4 ‘Tonight We Are Going to Shoot You!’ 19 No Moscow Trials in Barcelona 1 Chaotic Repression 2 Political Assassination 3 Freedom 4 1938: Deportations Continue 5 The End of the Civil War 6 Survivors and Missing Persons 20 Between Hell and Freedom 1 In the French Concentration Camps 2 Towards Exile 3 Prisoners of Fascist Italy 4 In the Clutches of the Nazis 21 Another War 1 With the Resistance 2 With the Allied Armies 3 Georges Kopp: Secret Agent? 4 Hans Reiter and La Nueve 22 Epilogue 1 Into the Political Desert 2 Survivors of the Third Reich 3 Other Lives 4 George Orwell and the Cold War 5 Bob Edwards and the KGB Conclusions Tables Biographical Appendix Glossary Sources Index