"This capital story, finally translated into French, on the hidden face of the war in Spain"

Honorary research director at the CNRS, Stéphane Courtois teaches at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies and directs the journal “Communisme”. He was the contracting authority for the “Black Book of Communism” (Robert Laffont, 1997), with international repercussions.
Among his most recent works, let us mention “Lenin, the inventor
of totalitarianism” (Perrin, 2017),
hailed by critics.

“Red Spain. Scenes from the Civil War, 1936-1937 ”, by Ksawery Pruszynski, translated by Brigitte Gautier (Buchet-Chastel, 2020, 496 p., € 27).

Few events in the twentieth century have given rise to
such an outpouring of lies, propaganda, political mythologies as the civil war which tore Spain from 1936 to 1939. In this regard, the recent French translation of a magnificent story by the great Polish journalist Ksawery Pruszynski, Red Spain. Scenes from the Civil War (Buchet-Chastel), published in 1937, is an important event.

Let us recall the facts. If Spain remained neutral during the

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