Spain in the 1930's was the last great cauldron of revolution before the onslaught of World War II. Here, for the first time in a single volume, are the day to day political assessments of the Spanish revolution and civil war by the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. A must read to understand the manner in which the rise of fascism in Spain was understood by the Trotskyist left and the role played there by Stalin and the Comintern.