Collectives in the Spanish Revolution by Gaston Leval
An history study of the Spanish Revolution bringing together two aspects that are generally difficult to unite - analysis and testimony. Gaston Leval visited the towns and villages of revolutionary Spain where people had opted to live a libertarian communist lifestyle almost without precedent in history, collectivising the land, factories, and social services. Collective in the Spanish Revolution clearly demonstrates that the working class are perfectly capable of running farms, factories, workshops, and health and public services without bosses or managers dictating to them.Gaston Leval(born Pierre Robert Piller, 1895-1978) was the son of a French Communard. He escaped to Spain in 1915 during the First World War, where he met the young firebrand and writer Victor Serge and joined the Confederaci�n Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) anarcho-syndicalist trade union organisation. Travelling in 1921 to Moscow as a CNT delegate to one of the most important organisations of the international communist movement, Leval wrote an influential report and a series of skeptical articles based on his experiences of the Bolshevik regime and attempted to spearhead action on behalf of imprisoned anarchists and socialists. After living in Argentina for much of the 1920s and '30s, Leval returned to Spain and became a militant fighter while documenting the Revolution and both urban and rural anarchist collectives.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781629634470 |
| ISBN 10 | 1629634476 |
| Title | Collectives in the Spanish Revolution |
| Author | Gaston Leval |
| Series | Freedom Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | PM Press |
| Year published | 2018-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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