Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936The significance of Spain's Second Republic has been largely overshadowed by the cataclysmic Civil War that immediately followed it. Stanley Payne brings his knowledge of Spanish history to bear on the five-year span of the Second Republic as an historic entity in its own right. In Spain's First Democracy, he argues that the Republic was one of the major national attempts at political democratisation and reform in Europe between the World Wars and represented the most important effort to swim against the tide during Europe's era of fascism. |
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The Ordeal of Modernization in Spain | 3 |
The Republican Transition 19301931 | 23 |
The Republican Constitution | 47 |
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