And the Soviet Union was quite obviously trying to spread Communist Revolution - "Workers of the Work, Unite!" - to the rest of the world
It's not that straightforward actually, the Comintern (under the impulse of Staline) wasn't really fond of the idea of spreading the revolution after the mid-twenties. During the cicil war, the Spanish communist party even teamed up with the centrists against the anarchists to crush the revolution that they had started with the anarchists a year before.[1]
It's only after 1947, when the cold war started, that the Soviet union resumed its support to communist insurgencies worldwide, but more as a geopolitical tool than really for ideological reasons (things would indeed have been very different in that regard had Trotsky led the USSR instead of Staline).
True (AFAIK). Though Stalin likely had geopolitical reasons for his lever-pulling in the Spanish Communist Party. And America's ruling classes would be far more motivated to keep their own necks out of revolutionary guillotines than to look deeply into Stalin's motives for backing it.
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It's not that straightforward actually, the Comintern (under the impulse of Staline) wasn't really fond of the idea of spreading the revolution after the mid-twenties. During the cicil war, the Spanish communist party even teamed up with the centrists against the anarchists to crush the revolution that they had started with the anarchists a year before.[1]
It's only after 1947, when the cold war started, that the Soviet union resumed its support to communist insurgencies worldwide, but more as a geopolitical tool than really for ideological reasons (things would indeed have been very different in that regard had Trotsky led the USSR instead of Staline).
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Days
True (AFAIK). Though Stalin likely had geopolitical reasons for his lever-pulling in the Spanish Communist Party. And America's ruling classes would be far more motivated to keep their own necks out of revolutionary guillotines than to look deeply into Stalin's motives for backing it.