Jaume Miravitlles and marxism : a twentieth-century voyage
Pujol, Enric, 1960- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Història Moderna i Contemporània)

Date:	2012
Abstract:	This article examines the political career of writer and journalist Jaume Miravitlles i Navarra (Figueres, 1906 - Barcelona, 1988). It proposes that the importance of his contributions to intellectual thought and politics deserve reassessment, partly because Miravitlles's political progress was typical of certain left-wing European intellectuals during the period in discussion: of those whose initiation in politics was full-blooded Leninism, but who then progressively distanced themselves from Soviet ideology and finally became profoundly critical of political Marxism. Miravitlles played a leading role in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, when he headed the Generalitat's Propaganda Commissariat. After 1939, in exile, he became one of the leading narrators of human experience during this period of war and revolution, a role that he reaffirmed on his return to Catalonia in 1963.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Polítics ; S. XX ; Catalunya ; Espanya ; 1936-1939, Guerra Civil ; Història ; Marxisme ; Leninism ; The avant-garde ; The Workers' and Peasants' Bloc (Bloc Obrer i Camperol) ; The Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) ; The Civil War, the Propaganda Commissariat (Comissariat de Propaganda) ; Exile ; Cold ; War ; Historiography ; Political thought ; Miravitlles, Jaume, 1906-1988 ; Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 ; Catalunya. Comissariat de Propaganda
Published in:	Journal of Catalan Intellectual History, Núm. 3 (2012) , p. 29-45, ISSN 2014-1564

Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/JOCIH/article/view/276928
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/JOCIH/article/view/76410
DOI: 10.2436/20.3001.02.38

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