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| Cuadernos de la Guerra Civil | |
|---|---|
| Title | Cuadernos de la Guerra Civil |
| Category | History, Spanish Civil War |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Cuadernos de la Guerra Civil was a scholarly journal devoted to the study of the Spanish Civil War and its international dimensions, combining archival research, eyewitness testimony, and historiographical debate. It situated episodes of the conflict within broader currents involving figures such as Francisco Franco, Manuel Azaña, Indalecio Prieto, José Antonio Primo de Rivera and institutions like the International Brigades, Comintern, Abwehr, Falange Española, POUM and CNT. The publication connected events in Spain to contemporaneous crises including the Great Depression, the Rise of Fascism, the Weimar Republic, the London Conference (1933), and the Munich Agreement.
The journal examined campaigns such as the Siege of Madrid, the Battle of Guadalajara, the Battle of Jarama, the Battle of the Ebro, and the Battle of Teruel alongside political episodes like the Alegato de Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, the Casado coup, the Battle for Catalonia, and the exile of Republican leaders to destinations including Mexico, France, Argentina, and Soviet Union. It published studies on personalities from Dolores Ibárruri and Buenaventura Durruti to Miguel de Unamuno, Federico García Lorca, Juan Negrín, Emilio Mola, José Sanjurjo and Ernest Hemingway, connecting literary responses by Pablo Neruda, Arthur Koestler, André Malraux, and George Orwell.
Founded amid renewed historiographical interest in the 1970s and 1980s, the periodical emerged as part of debates after the death of Francisco Franco and during the transition led by Adolfo Suárez and the passage of the Spanish Constitution of 1978. Early editors and sponsors included researchers affiliated with institutions such as the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Universidad de Barcelona, the Universidad de Salamanca and archival centers like the Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Española and the Archivo Histórico Nacional. It navigated censorship legacies and the Ley de Amnistía while engaging with international archives in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, London, New York, Buenos Aires and Lisbon.
Articles addressed military operations, intelligence networks linking the Abwehr and Italian intelligence services to Spanish plotting, diplomatic exchanges involving the League of Nations, the Non-Intervention Committee, and the role of volunteers from United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Social history pieces examined collectivization in Catalonia, agrarian reforms in Andalusia, anarchist experiments in Aragon, and repression under Francoist institutions like the Brigada Político-Social. Cultural analyses considered cinema by Luis Buñuel, poetry by Miguel Hernández, theater by Antonio Machado, and photography by Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, while legal-historical essays treated trials such as the aftermath of the White Terror (Spain) and the legislation of the Francoist regime.
Regular contributors included historians and intellectuals associated with figures and institutions such as Joaquín Romero Maura, Paul Preston, Helen Graham, Stanley G. Payne, Gabriel Jackson, Burnett Bolloten, Hugh Thomas, Jordi Canal, Carlos Hernández de Miguel, Angel Viñas, Joaquín Leguina, Isabel Ferrer, Francisco Espinosa, Jordi Solé Tura, Enrique Moradiellos, and archival scholars connected to National Historical Archive, Imperial War Museums, and university presses such as Cambridge University Press and Editorial Crítica. The editorial line tended toward critical, source-based revisionism that balanced military analysis, diplomatic studies, social history, and memory work, debating positions held by defenders of Republican Spain and apologists for Nationalist Spain.
The periodical influenced public debates about historical memory, contributing to legislative and civic efforts including discussions around the Law of Historical Memory and commemorative controversies involving monuments to Valle de los Caídos and exhumations in sites like Panteón de Hombres Ilustres and mass graves across Extremadura and Galicia. Reviews and critiques appeared in outlets tied to El País, ABC, La Vanguardia, El Mundo, and scholarly journals at Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of California, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad de Sevilla.
Special issues collated essays on comparative fascism and anti-fascism, the international brigades, and archival documents translated into English, French, German and Italian, attracting publishers like Routledge, Oxford University Press, Gallimard, Suhrkamp, Einaudi and Editorial Crítica. Translated contributions appeared in collections alongside works by George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Koestler, André Malraux and Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, and were cited in monographs published by Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press and Yale University Press.
The journal's corpus became a reference for doctoral research at programs in Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and international centers such as the London School of Economics, Columbia University, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. Its archives and editorial correspondence are consulted by scholars working on comparative studies involving the Second Spanish Republic, the Weimar Republic, Fascist Italy, the Nazi Party, the Soviet Union and transnational networks like the Communist International. Ongoing debates stimulated by the journal continue to shape exhibits at institutions including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo de la Guardia Civil and the Imperial War Museums.