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International Class Solidarity or Foreign Interventions?

Internationalists and Latvian Rifles in the Russian Revolution and the Civil War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Marc Jansen
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More or less by definition, civil war refers to an armed conflict between citizens of the same country. However, the two outstanding European examples of this century, the civil wars in Spain and Russia, were in fact complicated by foreign intervention. Indeed, in the case of Spain, intervention by foreign powers proved decisive.

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International Review of Social History , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , April 1986 , pp. 68 - 79
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Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1986

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