Judt, Tony

Judt did not actually have anything in his folder that really gave a detailed description of him or a view into his life but what he did do was a book review of "Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War". It says that the Spanish Civil war was a struggle between democrats and authoritarians and contemporaries. Moreover, the Soviet Union was the only to give help to the Republican government buttt when Judt analyzes this, he says that the Soviet Union only gave money because they were trying to spread Communism. On the other hand, Judt then states that the Republicans brought their fate on themselves by not representing the heterogenity of Spain such as the peasant small holders, shopkeepers, and Catholics.

Then you have the crazy people which were made up of anarchists, unionists, COmmunists, SOcialists, Republicans, Basques & Catalan separatists. Communists were a mniority in Spain however. The only reason they survived there was because the Soviet Union promised to offer money if they increased communism's hold and because Spanish Communism tried to destroy all the competition within the left.

This folder focused a lot on the Soviet Union which is another cool viewpoint.