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Land and Freedom.
It is a truism that history is written by the victors, not the vanquished, but the events in Spain from 1936-1939, known to the mainstream left as merely the Spanish Civil War and alternately referred to by anarchists and libertarian Marxists as the Spanish Revolution and counterrevolution, make convenient recourse to such platitudes even more problematic than usual. Many Americans earned of the Spanish crisis through novels such as For Whom the Bell Tolls and Man's Hope, as well as crusading documentaries such as The Spanish Earth. The struggle to preserve the endangered Republic and defeat Franco was depicted as a clear-cut struggle between liberal democracy and malevolent fascism. Even if fascism proved victorious, the war of words and images appears to have been won by the left. The novels by Hem...
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