The limits of renovation: Russian contributions to the study of the Civil War

Abstract

This article deals with the vast transformation undergone by Soviet- Russian historiography of the Spanish Civil War in the last years. Having rejected the concept of a “National-Revolutionary War” and coming closer to Spanish and international historiography, Russian research has developed considerably in the recent past. Its principal fulcrum is the analysis of documents from Soviet archives which are hardly accessible to foreign historians. However, this transformation has some limitations, which this article endeavours to demonstrate.

Keywords

• Guerra Civil española
• URSS
• historiografía soviética
• historiografía rusa