Agit-Prop comunista en la Guerra Civil: entre el Frente Popular y el Partido Unico Obrero

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to reconstruct the propaganda launched by the Spanish Communist Party during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). From the research already known and, above all, from the unpublished material located at the Documentary Centre for Historical Memory, the thesis which link the communist propaganda strategies to the International Communist Organization are qualified; particular strategies are needed and identified depending on the situation and the media and the different means used to transmit their information are analyzed. All this is dealt with to conclude that the intensity of the Communist propaganda in that period may have caused counterproductive effects for their political purposes.; El objeto de este trabajo es reconstruir el aparato de propaganda puesto en marcha por el PCE durante la guerra de 1936-39. A partir de las investigaciones ya conocidas y, sobre todo, del material inédito localizado en el Centro documental para la Memoria Histórica, se matizan las tesis que vinculan la estrategia propagandística comunista a los dictados de la Internacional Comunista; se precisan e identifican estrategias propias en función de la coyuntura y se analizan medios y soportes empleados. Todo ello para concluir que la intensidad de la propaganda comunista en este periodo pudo haber provocado efectos contraproducentes para sus fines políticos.