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Revisiting "Catalonia" again.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
To the Editors:
I write as an occasional contributor to The New Criterion and recognized authority on Catalonia in the Spanish civil war of 1936-1939. I was coauthor with the Catalan historian Victor Alba of the 1988 book Spanish Marxism vs. Soviet Communism, the only volume in English on the Partit Obrer d'Unificacio Marxista or POUM, in the ranks of whose militia George Orwell served. I was also a special fact-checker of the 2001 Yale University Press volume Spain Betrayed, comprising documents on the Spanish war from the Soviet archives. I am completely fluent in Spanish and Catalan, read Russian and other relevant languages such as Croatian and Albanian ...
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