After the Games

Stout, James

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-8071-6_6

James Stout³

Part of the book series: Mega Event Planning ((MEGAEP))

201 Accesses

Abstract

Although the Popular Olympics never occurred, in a sense they met many of their goals. The coup which launched the civil war failed in Barcelona, but it succeeded in much of the rest of Spain, and for many of the dedicated anti-fascists of the Popular Olympics, this provided a long-awaited chance to take up arms against their old foe. This chapter traces the national and individual contributions to the International Brigades that have their roots in the Popular Olympics.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Chapter: USD 29.95; Price excludes VAT (USA)

eBook: USD 54.99; Price excludes VAT (USA)

Softcover Book: USD 69.99; Price excludes VAT (USA)

Hardcover Book: USD 69.99; Price excludes VAT (USA)

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

1.
Ruben Castelló Mateo, “Patrimonio Histórico Español Del Juego y Del Deporte: La Olimpiada Popular de 1936,” Museo Del Juego, 2011.
2.
“Un Avance Del Programa Completo de Los Juegos Populares,” El Mundo Deportivo, July 19, 1936.
3.
Muriel Rukeyser and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Savage Coast: A Novel (New York City: The Feminist Press, 2013).
4.
John Gerassi, The Premature Antifascists: North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39: An Oral History (New York: Praeger, 1986).
5.
Casualty rates were as high as 75% in some engagements. The Thälmann battalion, which refused to retreat under fire in the defence of Madrid, lost two whole companies in 1937 and yet is barely remembered when we think about Germany in the 1930s.
6.
Beevor places the total of those who remained at 200 A. Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Penguin Group USA, 2006).
7.
“Una Legió d’honor.” Treball, July 22, 1936.
8.
“Nota Important.” Treball, July 22, 1936.
9.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games,” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
10.
Douglas W. Richmond, “The Politics of Spanish Financial and Economic Policies During the Second Republic, 1931–1933,” The Historian 49, no. 3 (1987): 348–67.
11.
George Orwell. Homage to Catalonia. Mariner Books, 1952.
12.
“Una Legió d’honor,” Treball, July 22, 1936.
13.
“Informacion Catalana,” La Vanguardia, July 24, 1936.
14.
Dave Hann, Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism (John Hunt Publishing, 2012).
15.
Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). P. 42.
16.
Daniele Mariani, “No Pardon for Spanish Civil War Helpers,” SWI swissinfo.ch, accessed February 17, 2019, https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/no-pardon-for-spanish-civil-war-helpers/6445388.
17.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games,” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
18.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games,” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
19.
Muriel Rukeyser and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Savage Coast: A Novel (New York City: The Feminist Press, 2013).
20.
Muriel Rukeyser and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Savage Coast: A Novel (New York City: The Feminist Press, 2013).
21.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games,” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
22.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games,” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
23.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games,” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
24.
“Informacion Catalana,” La Vanguardia, July 24, 1936.
25.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games,” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
26.
Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, and Sam Sills, The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, 1984.
27.
“Abraham Alfred Chakin.” Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, n.d. http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/abraham-alfred-chakin.
28.
Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War (Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1994).
29.
Richard Baxell, British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936–1939 (Routledge, 2004).
30.
Richard Baxell, “The British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939” (London School of Economics and Political Science, 2001).
31.
Bill Alexander, British Volunteers for Liberty: Spain 1936–1939, First edition (London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1984).
32.
“Printworkers Honoured,” INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE MEMORIAL TRUST, February 2003.
33.
Richard Baxell, British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936–1939 (Routledge, 2004).
34.
Richard Baxell, “The Volunteers,” http://www.richardbaxell.info/volunteers/.
35.
Sylvia Martin, Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer (Apollo Books, 2016). P. 137.
36.
Sylvia Martin, Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer (Apollo Books, 2016). Quotation from p. 127.
37.
Tom Buchanan, Britain and the Spanish Civil War (Cambridge, U.K.; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
38.
Sylvia Martin, Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer (Apollo Books, 2016).
39.
Kevin Brown, “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” ICSM Gazette, Spring 2017.
40.
Richard Baxell, “The British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939” (London School of Economics and Political Science, 2001).
41.
Generalitat de Catalunya. Comissariat de Propaganda. “Press Release. No. 194: English Edition,” March 23, 1937. Archives of the Trades Union Congress.
42.
Robert A. Stradling, The Irish and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39: Crusades in Conflict (Manchester University Press, 1999).
43.
Michael O’Riordan, Conolly Column: The Story of the Irishmen Who Fought in the Ranks of the International Brigades in the National-Revolutionary War of the Spanish People, 1936–1939 (Pontypool: Warren & Pell, 2005).
44.
Barry McLoughlin, Fighting for Republican Spain 1936–38 (Barry McLoughlin, 2014).
45.
“Ireland and the Spanish Civil War—Police Report on SPNI Meeting on Spain, April 1937,” accessed September 13, 2018, http://irelandscw.com/ibvol-ScottSPNI.htm.
46.
Barry McLoughlin, Fighting for Republican Spain 1936–38 (Barry McLoughlin, 2014).
47.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games.” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
48.
M. D. Benavides, Guerra y Revolución En Cataluña:(Reportaje) (Ediciones Tenochititlan, 1946).
49.
“Aux Fronitères d’Espagne,” L’Humanité, July 26, 1936, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k406786n.
50.
Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
51.
“Borrador de Carta Per a La FSGT,” n.d., Unio Esportiva Sants.
52.
Franz Borkenau, The Spanish Cockpit: An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War (London: Phoenix, 2000).
53.
Arnold Krammer, “Germans against Hitler: The Thaelmann Brigade,” Journal of Contemporary History 4, no. 3 (April 1, 1969).
54.
“Los Festivales Proximos Del Comité Cátala Pro Esport Popular,” Mundo Deportivo, March 30, 1936.
55.
Arnold Krammer, “Germans against Hitler: The Thaelmann Brigade,” Journal of Contemporary History 4, no. 3 (April 1, 1969).
56.
Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). P. 43.
57.
Arnold Krammer, “Germans against Hitler: The Thaelmann Brigade,” Journal of Contemporary History 4, no. 3 (April 1, 1969).
58.
Arnold Krammer, “Germans against Hitler: The Thaelmann Brigade,” Journal of Contemporary History 4, no. 3 (April 1, 1969).
59.
Muriel Rukeyser, “Liberty Versus Death in Spain.” New Masses, September 1, 1936.
60.
Muriel Rukeyser and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Savage Coast: A Novel (New York City: The Feminist Press, 2013). P. xxix.
61.
Muriel Rukeyser and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Savage Coast: A Novel (New York City: The Feminist Press, 2013). P. xxvii.
62.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games,” Esquire, October 1, 1974.
63.
Muriel Rukeyser, “We Came for Games.” Esquire, October 1, 1974. P. 307.
64.
Clara Thalmann and Paul Thalmann, Combats Pour La Liberté: Moscou, Madrid, Paris (La Digitale, 1983).
65.
Helen Graham, “‘Against the State’: A Genealogy of the Barcelona May Days (1937),” European History Quarterly 29, no. 4 (October 1, 1999): 485–542.
66.
Clara Thalmann and Paul Thalmann, Combats Pour La Liberté: Moscou, Madrid, Paris (La Digitale, 1983).
67.
Gerd-Rainer Horn, “In Stalin’s Secret Barcelona Jail,” in Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War, ed. Gerd-Rainer Horn (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009), 183–201, https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234499_8.
68.
Gerben Zaagsma, Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017).
69.
Mink often went by “Mundek” and his name is often rendered as Mincq in French.
70.
Arno Lustiger “Emanuel Mink, Une Figure de La Guerre Civile Espagnole,” Le Monde, April 10, 2008, https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2008/04/10/emanuel-mink-une-figure-de-la-guerre-civile-espagnole_1033116_3382.html.
71.
Arno Lustiger, Daniel Meyer, and Chantal Kesteloot, “Shalom Libertad!”: les juifs dans la guerre civile espagnole (Paris: Ed. du Cerf, 1991).
72.
Gerben Zaagsma, Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017). 110–13, 125–129.
73.
Annette Aronowicz, “Yaschar: My Father’s Life In Yiddish Theatre” Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, accessed March 5, 2019, https://yiddishstage.org/yaschar-my-fathers-life-in-yiddish-theatre.
74.
Gerben Zaagsma, Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017). 74 Zaagsdma makes great use of Naye Prese in his work and provides insight into the role played by Elski and his writing.
75.
“Els Italians Antifeixistes Exiliats a Barcelona,” Treball, July 22, 1936.
76.
Carmela Maltone, “Les Antifascistes Italiens Dans La Guerre d’Espagne: Histoire et Mythe de La Brigade Garibaldi,” in Garibaldi : Héritage et Mémoire (Toulouse, France: Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur l’Italie, 2007), https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01316524.
77.
“The Foreign Legion of the Revolution: German Anarcho-Syndicalist and Volunteers in Anarchist Militias during the Spanish Civil War—Dieter Nelles,” libcom.org, accessed September 7, 2018, http://libcom.org/library/the-foreign-legion-revolution.
78.
Raanan Rein, “El Desafio a Los Juegos Olimpicos de Berlin 1936: Los Atleteas Judios de Palestina En La Frustrada Olimpiada Popular de Barcelona,” Historia Contemporánea 56 (2017): 121–55.
79.
Gerben Zaagsma, Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017). P. 2.
80.
Raanan Rein, “A Belated Inclusion: Jewish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and Their Place in the Israeli National Narrative,” Israel Studies 17, no. 1 (2012): 24–49.
81.
Gerben Zaagsma, Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017).
82.
Raanan Rein, “El Desafio a Los Juegos Olimpicos de Berlin 1936: Los Atleteas Judios de Palestina En La Frustrada Olimpiada Popular de Barcelona,” Historia Contemporánea 56 (2017): 121–55.
83.
Raanan Rein, “El Desafio a Los Juegos Olimpicos de Berlin 1936: Los Atleteas Judios de Palestina En La Frustrada Olimpiada Popular de Barcelona,” Historia Contemporánea 56 (2017): 121–55.
84.
Raanan Rein, “Echoes of the Spanish Civil War in Palestine: Zionists, Communists and the Contemporary Press,” Journal of Contemporary History 43, no. 1 (2008): 9–23.
85.
Raanan Rein, “El Desafio a Los Juegos Olimpicos de Berlin 1936: Los Atleteas Judios de Palestina En La Frustrada Olimpiada Popular de Barcelona,” Historia Contemporánea 56 (2017): 121–55.
86.
Raanan Rein, “A Belated Inclusion: Jewish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and Their Place in the Israeli National Narrative,” Israel Studies 17, no. 1 (2012): 24–49.
87.
Raanan Rein, “El Desafio a Los Juegos Olimpicos de Berlin 1936: Los Atleteas Judios de Palestina En La Frustrada Olimpiada Popular de Barcelona,” Historia Contemporánea 56 (2017): 121–55.
88.
Muriel Rukeyser and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Savage Coast: A Novel (New York City: The Feminist Press, 2013).
89.
George Orwell, “The Sporting Spirit,” The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 4 (1968): 1945–50.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA, USA
James Stout

Authors

James Stout
View author publications
You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Stout, J. (2020). After the Games. In: The Popular Front and the Barcelona 1936 Popular Olympics. Mega Event Planning. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8071-6_6

Download citation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8071-6_6
Published: 10 July 2019
Publisher Name: Palgrave Pivot, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-13-8070-9
Online ISBN: 978-981-13-8071-6
eBook Packages: Political Science and International StudiesPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics