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Mexico and the Spanish Civil War - Domestic Politics and the Republican Cause (Paperback)
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Mexico and the Spanish Civil War - Domestic Politics and the Republican Cause (Paperback)
Series: Sussex Studies in Spanish History
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Based on first-hand diplomatic, political and journalistic sources,
most unpublished, Mexico and the Spanish Civil War investigates the
backing of the Second Republic by Mexico during the Spanish Civil
War. Significant military, material and financial aid was given by
the government of Lazaro Cardenas (19341940) to the Republic, which
involved not only direct sales of arms, but also smuggling
operations covertly undertaken by Mexican diplomatic agents in
order to circumvent the embargo imposed by the London Committee of
Non Intervention. This path-breaking account reveals the operations
in Spain of Mexican workers, soldiers, artists and intellectuals
such as later Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz and the Muralist David
Alfaro Siqueiros as volunteers and propagandists for the Republican
cause. Engagement with the Spanish Civil War also had a profound
impact upon Mexico's domestic politics as support for the Republic
was equated by Cardenas with his own revolutionary project. The
defeat of the Republic in 1939 therefore had far-reaching
repercussions for the post-1940 governments. Originally published
to critical acclaim in Spanish, the work has been quoted and
reviewed by many leading specialists on the Civil War, including
Anthony Beevor, Angel Vinas, Santos Julia, and Pedro Perez Herrero.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars
specializing in contemporary European history and politics, Latin
American studies, and all those with an interest in the Spanish
Civil War and the Mexican Revolution.
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