Visiones de Rusia en la narrativa española: el caso de la División Azul

Abstract

The main objective of this Doctoral Thesis is to study the image of Russia in the Spanish narrative –fiction and autobiographical– from the 18th century until now. After to analyse the first incursions in the tsarist time to a country considered as exotic, this work examines how the Russian Revolution and the imposition of the communist power were percived in Spain. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union became in the worst enemy of the Franco dictatorship. Spain has an especial example in the common imagination to talk about the eastern country: the Spanish Blue Division. When some of his members returned to the Eastern Front, they wrote about their experience and created their own subgenre within the Spanish fascist literature. In the last years, and thanks to the boom of the historical memory, the thema has been taken by the novelist. In their books the divisionary tradition is combined with new perspectives about the group.