Spanish Civil War and Revolution Reading List

(Alpha by author)

Original Source Material:

  • Peirats, José – The CNT in the Spanish Revolution (3 volumes)

Eyewitness Accounts

  • Christie, Stewart – Granny Made Me An Anarchist: General Franco, the Angry Brigade, and Me
  • Goldman, Emma – Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution
  • Hemingway, Ernest – For Whom the Bell Tolls (semi-fictionalized)
  • Orwell, George – Homage to Catalonia
  • Yates, James – Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Historical Scholarship 

  • Ackelsberg, Martha – Free Women of Spain
  • Beevor, Antony – The Battle for Spain
  • Bookchin, Murray – The Spanish Anarchists
  • Bookchin, Murray – To Remember Spain
  • Chomsky, Noam – “On Liberal Scholarship” (featured in The Chomsky Reader)
  • Dolgoff, Sam – The Anarchist Collectives (an abridged version of Leval: see below)
  • Ealham, Chris – Anarchism and the City
  • Ealham, Chris – Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist Movement
  • Evans, Danny – Revolution and the State
  • Faber, Sebastiaan – Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War
  • Fraser, Ron – Blood of Spain
  • Garner, Jason – Goals and Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica
  • Guillamón, Agustín – The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937–39
  • Guillamón, Agustín – Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona
  • Guillamón, Agustín – Ready for Revolution
  • Hochschild, Adam – Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
  • Leval, Gaston – Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
  • Lloyd, Nick – Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War
  • Lloyd, Nick – Travels Through the Spanish Civil War
  • Martínez Catalán, Roberto – Zaragoza Bound: A Chronicle of the Durruti Column
  • Mintz, Frank – Anarchism and Workers’ Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain
  • Paz, Abel – Durruti (an expanded edition of Durruti: The People Armed)
  • Paz, Abel – The Story of the Iron Column
  • Radosh, Ronald et al. (eds.), Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War
  • Richards, Vernon – Lessons of the Spanish Revolution