Transnational Communism During the Cold War The Spanish Communists and their European Networks

List of Contributors

Introduction

Eduardo Abad García, Xavier María Ramos Diez-Astrain and Emanuele Treglia

1.     The Transnational Turn, the History of the Comintern and Paths Forward for Cold War Communist Studies

Oleksa Drachewych

2.     The Communist Party of Spain and the USSR from the Soviet Perspective
Georgy Filatov

3.     East–West Relations. The Communist Party of Spain and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Cold War from the Spanish Perspective

Magdalena Garrido Caballero

4.     Relations between the Spanish Communists and the East-German SED in the Framework of Spain-GDR Ties (1949-1989)

Xavier María Ramos Diez-Astrain

5.     Transnational Economics. The PCE between Prague, Moscow and Madrid (1945-1977)

Maroš Timko

6.     Ideology, Solidarity and Interests in PCE-PZPR Relations

Bartłomiej Różycki

7.     “Friends will be Friends”. Links between Spanish and Yugoslav Communist Parties

Nikolina Židek and Marko Fernández Nikolić

8.     The Communist Party of Spain and the Internationalisation of Anti-Francoism through the World Peace Council (1948-1977)

Diego Ruiz Panadero

9.     Communist Women and Transnational Anti-Francoist Campaigns (1960s-1970s): Gender, Politics and Solidarity

Mónica Moreno Seco

10.  Solidarity and Eurocommunism. Relations between Italian and Spanish Communists in the 1960s and 1970s

Emanuele Treglia

11.  “Our Flag Stays Red”. Transnational Networks of Spanish Orthodox Dissent in European Communism (1968-1990)

Eduardo Abad García

List of Abbreviations

Index

Biography

Eduardo Abad García is a social and cultural historian specializing in 20th-century communism and revolutionary movements, currently teaching at the University of Oviedo. He completed his PhD in 2020 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Oviedo and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His interdisciplinary work draws on cultural studies and sociology, with nearly 30 publications in leading journals and research stays across Europe and Latin America.

Xavier María Ramos Diez-Astrain is member of the Research Group on the History of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid (GHistRI) and holds a PhD from the University of Valladolid. His research focuses on Spain’s relations with Eastern European socialist states, Spanish communism’s transnational ties, and the internal politics of socialist regimes. He has published widely, coordinated major conferences, and held visiting positions in Berlin, Halle, Budapest, and Madrid.

Emanuele Treglia is Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and editor of Historia del Presente, with a PhD from LUISS Guido Carli (Rome). His research explores the Spanish and European left, anti-Francoist activism, radical movements, and international communist relations during the Cold War. He has published widely, and completed several research stays at institutions such as the University of Toulouse and the Historical Archives of the European Union-European University Institute.