TY - GEN AU - Kowalsky, Daniel, ED - American Council of Learned Societies. TI - Stalin and the Spanish Civil War PY - 2008///, c2001 CY - [New York] PB - Columbia University Press KW - Stalin, Joseph, KW - Spain KW - History KW - Civil War, 1936-1939 KW - Participation, Russian KW - Soviet Union KW - Foreign relations KW - 1917-1945 KW - 1931-1939 N1 - Caption title; description based on screen of 2008-04-30; Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org; Includes bibliography; Access restricted to authorized subscribers; Electronic text (HTML) and image data (JPG) N2 - Kowalsky's study presents a critical reassessment of the role of Jos ef Stalin and the Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War. Employing a wi de range of declassified Soviet documents, other unpublished materials of Spanish provenance, published memoir accounts, previously unseen cin ematic evidence, poster art, and sound recordings, Kowalsky argues that though Stalin's intervention in Spain was enormously ambitious, it was an operational failure of roughly the same scale. The text is accompan ied by appendices of images, video clips, and reproductions of archival documents UR - htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.99012 ER -