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...intent of the book is clear throughout it charts the submergence of the long cherished communist goal of world revolution into the much of Soviet internal affairs under Stalin According to Carr, the original plan for the defense of a fledgling Spanish socialist government against the rebel Fascists and the advancement of the communist movement there was scrapped in the name of political expediency. As Carr puts it in his conclusion, the "united front," which joined Spanish socialists and communists under Moscow's guidance, gave was to a "popular front," with which the Spanish left was ordered to embrace...
...anarchists and the Trotskyites rose up in Barcelona but were crushed after a desperate struggle. The government blamed the Trotskyites leaders and dupes who engaged in "conscious lying, conscious provocation conscious support for Fascism." The Comintern engineered a switch in leadership, from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...
...Mars's call for the uniting of the world's workers. Unfortunately, Carr Shows only a little sympathy for the Trotskyites forces who refused to see the necessary distinction between the progression of socialism and the defeat of Fascism. His argument implies the moral failure of any reasonably strategic socialist country, and this reflects a serious lack of consideration of Trotsky's writings on the subject. The Soviets did need to strike some sort of bargain with the West on the eve of World War II. But that does not mean they couldn't have supported the left socialist majority...
...Spain and Gibraltar's Chief Minister, Sir Joshua Hassan, met in Geneva last week and agreed to hold annual talks that will include the delicate question of sovereignty. But in Gibraltar, union with Spain still seems to be an unpopular idea. Says Joe Bossano, leader of the opposition Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party: "I believe we can follow a path toward self-government...
...apparent to the leadership, canceled a trip to Paris, where he had been expected to attend the 25th congress of the French Communist Party. Two weeks earlier, the Kremlin had announced that a conference of Warsaw Pact leaders, set for mid-January, had been postponed. In Bonn, West German Socialist Leader Willy Brandt announced that a visit to the Soviet capital in mid-February had also been postponed at Moscow's request. So great was the climate of uncertainty in Moscow that foreign diplomats and journalists became nervous every time the radio broadcast somber symphonic music, frequently the first indication...