The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 and the Propaganda Struggle: the French Component

Abstract

The author analyses the international aspect of the Spanish Civil War and the interpretation of the War as an ideological struggle, and studies the propaganda contained in radical right-wing French, Italian, British press, using new documents from the Archives of the Foreign Policy of the Russian MFA. The European press used the Spanish Civil War topic to aggravate the situation in Spain, to widen the division in the Popular Front in France and split France and Britain from the Soviet Union.