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The Spanish Second Republic Revisited
From Democratic Hopes to the Civil War (1931–1936)

In the Series:
Studies in Spanish History

Edited by Manuel Álvarez Tardío and Fernando del Rey Reguillo
Manuel Álvarez Tardío is Senior Lecturer in the History of Political Thought and Social and Political Movements at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. He has been a visiting research fellow at the universities of Tufts (Boston), Madison-Wisconsin (USA) and the Sorbonne (Paris). Fernando del Rey Reguillo is Professor in the History of Political Thought and Social and Political Movements at Complutense University of Madrid. Author of The Power of Entrepreneurs. Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spain (Oxford, 2007).

The Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in modern European history. Its origins, that is to say the politics of the Second Republic (1931–1936), have been much debated. The republican period has been much idealized and in particular the myth of Spanish democracy beset by fascism, of which Franco was its leading figure, has been much cultivated. But was this really the case? Recently historians of the Republic have proposed a new and non-ideological perspective on the 1930s. Spain–s path was at once different yet in many ways similar to that of Europe during the interwar period.
… The Spanish Second Republic Revisited brings together leading and innovative specialists to analyse the main obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Spain and to debate the principal stereotypes of the traditional historiography of both left and right. The issues addressed include: the breakdown of democracy; whether the CEDA was an opportunity or a threat; the centrist appeal under the Republic; how the elections were viewed and conducted; the transformation of fascism; new revelations about the Communist party; the politics of exclusion at the local level; the perceived necessity for repression; new perspectives on the Civil Guard; the role of intellectuals in the Republic; and revisionism and sectarian history.
… The Spanish Second Republic Revisited offers a new and dynamic vision of why Spanish democracy failed to consolidate itself and why it finally fell into the terror of civil war. The book is essential reading for all those interested in modern European history.

Series Preface, Nigel Townson Introduction, Manuel Álvarez Tardío and Fernando del Rey Reguillo 1 Stanley G. Payne, A Critical Overview of the Second Spanish Republic. 2 Luis Arranz Notario, Could the Second Republic have become a Democracy? 3 José Manuel Macarro Vera, The Socialists and Revolution. 4 Manuel Álvarez Tardío, The CEDA: Threat or Opportunity? 5 Gabriele Ranzato, The Republican Left and the Defence of Democracy, 1934–1936 6 Nigel Townson, A Third Way? Centrist Politics under the Republic. 7 Roberto Villa García, The Limits of Democratization: Elections and Political Culture. 8 José Antonio Parejo Fernández, The Mutation of Falangism, 1934–1936 9 Tim Rees, Revolution or Republic? The Spanish Communist Party. 10 Fernando del Rey Reguillo, Policies of Exclusion during the Second Republic: a View from the Grass Roots. 11 Julius Ruiz, Old Wine in New Bottles: The Historiography of Repression in Spain During and After the Spanish Civil War. 12 Gerald Blaney, New Perspectives on the Civil Guard and the Second Republic, 1931–1936. 13 Javier Zamora, Intellectuals and the Republic. 1 ) Pedro Carlos González Cuevas, On the Irrelevance of Fascism in Spain. Notes Bibliography Index
“The raison d’être behind The Spanish Second Republic Revisited is not to defend a particular ideological or political standpoint but to elucidate and explain this dynamic, agitated period in Spanish history in all its complexity. Certainly, this does not mean that the authors of this volume share a common vision of the Second Republic, but it does signal their collective intent to escape the ideological certainties that have conditioned so much of the work on the regime.” Nigel Townson, General Series Editor of Sussex Studies in Spanish History

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