Lessons is a brutal, unrelenting and entirely unforgiving critique of the CNT-FAI’s decision to enter the Popular Front government in October 1936, impressive in its documentation and irrefutable in its logic. In its various forms it has been one of Freedom Press’s most influential and bestselling publications. A third Freedom Press edition appeared in 1983. A considerably expanded version was prepared for an Italian edition of 1957 and it was this text that was published as the second Freedom Press edition in 1972. In July 1953, these were reprinted as a book. Lessons of the Spanish Revolution originated as twenty-three weekly articles published in Freedom between July and December 1952. One brief section of approximately ten pages in the previous edition was removed-an overly arcane and largely redundant critique of the second edition of Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War, a book already critically addressed at length elsewhere in the text. This, the 2019 PM Press edition of Vernon Richards’s classic analysis of the Spanish Civil War, is largely a reprint of the Freedom Press 1983 edition, with certain modernizations to spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, and punctuation. Vallera,” 1974) and Spanish (Madrid: Campo Abierto Ediciones, 1977 ).įor the third Freedom Press edition (1983) the author added footnotes to a bibliographical postscript and also reprinted from Freedom (January 1978) a review of the third edition of Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War. This version has since been published in French (Paris: Editions 10/18, 1975), Italian (Pistoia: Edizioni “V. A Spanish edition was published in Paris (Bellibaste, 1971).įor the second Freedom Press edition (1972) a bibliographical postscript was added to the Italian edition. Part II was all new material except for chapter 18 and the first part of the conclusions. Part I remained unchanged apart from minor corrections and some additions. A Japanese translation appeared the following year.įor an Italian edition in 1957 the author produced a considerably expanded version. They were reprinted in volume form with an introduction (July 1953). This book began as a series of twenty-three weekly articles for the anarchist journal Freedom (July–December 1952). THE RANK AND FILE’S RESPONSIBILITYįOOTNOTES TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL POSTSCRIPT (1983) THE CULT OF THE ORGANISATION AND OF PERSONALITIESĬHAPTER XX. THE EXTENDED NATIONAL ECONOMIC PLENUM OF JANUARY 1938ĬHAPTER XIX. FROM THE MILITIAS TO MILITARIZATIONĬHAPTER XVII. THE FAI AND THE POLITICAL STRUGGLEĬHAPTER XVI. THE CNT AND THE CABALLERO GOVERNMENT CRISISĬHAPTER XV. THE REVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE “MAY DAYS”ĬHAPTER XIV. THE COMMUNISTS: SPEARHEAD OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONĬHAPTER XIII. THE CNT JOINS THE CATALAN AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENTSĬHAPTER VII. ANARCHIST DICTATORSHIP OR COLLABORATION AND DEMOCRACYĬHAPTER VI. ![]() ![]() THE REVOLUTION AT THE CROSSROADSĬHAPTER IV. THE MILITARISTS’ UPRISING OF JULY 1936ĬHAPTER III. THE ELECTIONS OF FEBRUARY 1936ĬHAPTER II. ![]() ![]() INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION (1953)ĬHAPTER I. LESSONS OF THE SPANISH REVOLUTION AND VERNON RICHARDS
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