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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Anarchism
In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants
living in the United States created Espana Libre (Free Spain) as a
response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland.
Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical
raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing
left-wing culture and politics. Espana Libre proved both visionary
and durable, charting an alternate path toward a modern Spain and
enduring until democracy's return to the country in 1977. Montse
Feu merges Espana Libre's story with the drama of the Spanish
immigrant community's fight against fascism. The periodical emerged
as part of a transnational effort to link migrants and new exiles
living in the United States to antifascist networks abroad. In
addition to showing how workers' culture and politics shaped their
antifascism, Feu brings to light creative works that ranged from
literature to satire to cartoons to theater. As Espana Libre opened
up radical practices, it encouraged allies to reject violence in
favor of social revolution's potential for joy and inclusion.
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This path-breaking book offers fresh insights into a perennial
problem. At times, the absence of centralized international
authority precludes attainment of common goals. Yet, at other
times, nations realize mutual interests through cooperation under
anarchy. Drawing on a diverse set of historical cases in security
and economic affairs, the contributors to this special issue of
World Politics not only provide a unified explanation of the
incidence of cooperation and conflict, but also suggest strategies
to promote the emergence of cooperation.
Nestor Makhno has been called a revolutionary anarchist, a peasant
rebel, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, a mass-murderer, a pogromist, and
a devil. These epithets had their origins in the Russian Civil War
(1917-1921), where the military forces of the peasant-anarchist
Nestor Makhno and Mennonite colonists in southern Ukraine came into
conflict. In autumn 1919, Makhnovist troops and local peasant
sympathizers murdered more than 800 Mennonites in a series of
large-scale massacres. The history of that conflict has been
fraught with folklore, ideological battles and radically divergent
cultural memories, in which fact and fiction often seamlessly
blend, conjuring a multitude of Makhnos, each one shouting its
message over the other. Drawing on theories of collective memory
and narrative analysis, Makhno and Memory brings a vast array of
Makhnovist and Mennonite sources into dialogue, including memoirs,
histories, diaries, newspapers, and archival material. A diversity
of perspectives are brought into relief through the personal
reminiscences of Makhno and his anarchist sympathizers alongside
Mennonite pacifists and advocates for armed self-defense. Through a
meticulous analysis of the Makhnovist-Mennonite conflict and a
micro-study of the Eichenfeld massacre of November 1919, Sean
Patterson attempts to make sense of the competing cultural memories
and presents new ways of thinking about Makhno and his movement.
Makhno and Memory offers a convincing reframing of the Mennonite /
Makhno relationship that will force a scholarly reassessment of
this period.
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