UCIS     University Center for International Studies


“The Spanish Civil War’s Impact on Spanish and Soviet Political Cultures”

A working conference sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Center for Russian and East European Studies, and European Studies Center.


Participants and Papers

Daniel Kowalsky (Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland):
"Decree and Power: The successes and failures of Soviet plans in the Spanish Republic, 1936-1939"
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Josep Puigsech (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
"Nationalism and Communism: The Unforeseen Catalan Experiment during the Spanish Civil War."
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Enrique Moradiellos Garcia (Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres):
"The Communist Factor in Republican Politics at War: From Centrality to Isolation."
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Jonathan Sherry (University of Pittsburgh):
"International Communism and Republican Jurisprudence in the Spanish State-building Project, 1936-1939"
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Olga Novikova Monterde (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid):
"The Spanish Civil War and the Future World War in the Russian Looking Glass"
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William Chase (University of Pittsburgh):
"Civil War, Internationalism, and the Forging of Communist Political Cultures in the Spanish Republic and the USSR."
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Immaculada Colomina (Post-doctoral Fellow, Arizona State University):
"Dreaming of Moscow; The Red Mirror and the Spanish exiles in the 1930's"
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Glennys Young (University of Washington, Seattle):
"Spaniards Out of Karaganda? Refugee Relief, Late Stalinism, and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War"
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