Burnett Bolloten (

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, 1909 – Sunnyvale, California, 1987) was a writer and scholar of the

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Early life

The son of a

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jeweler, he was born in the

. Not wishing to follow his father's career, he began to travel around the

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. While on vacation in

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, he was witness to the outbreak of the

, a conflict that he covered as correspondent for the

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Spanish Civil War

While initially a supporter but a not militant of the Spanish Communist Party, he became disappointed with it during the course of the war. He eventually came to the conclusion that the party had betrayed the republic.

Historian

After the war, he moved to

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and spent several years there with his first wife, Gladys Evie Green. There, he interviewed refugees of the conflict and put together material about the war. That material is now held at the

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of Stanford University. After separating from his wife, he in 1949 immigrated to the

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and settled in Sunnyvale, California. For many years, he worked as an historian and a real estate broker.

Death

He died of prostate cancer in November 1987.

Works

He wrote three volumes about the Spanish Civil War: *''The Grand Camouflage. The Communist conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War'', published in 1961; *''The Spanish Revolution'', published in 1979; *''The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution'', published in 1991. Bolloten's work had a great influence on other North American Hispanists like Stanley G. Payne as well as on the historiography of the war in Spain itself. His research on the revolution of 1936 has been followed by a good number of specialists in this period of Spanish history.

External links

Obituary: Burnett Bolloten
in ''

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World Affairs Report, Ronald Hilton, 1999 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolloten, Burnett 1909 births 1987 deaths British Hispanists Historians of the Spanish Civil War Writers from Sunnyvale, California