Background of the Spanish Civil War

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The background of the Spanish Civil War dates back to the end of the 19th century, when the owners of large estates, called

King Alfonso XIII abdicated; the Second Spanish Republic was formed, whose power would remain until the culmination of the Spanish Civil War
. Monarchists would continue to oppose the Republic.

The revolutionary committee headed by

elections of 1933 following an unsuccessful uprising by General José Sanjurjo
in August 1932, who would later lead the coup that started the civil war.

Events in the period following November 1933, called the "black biennium", seemed to make a civil war more likely.

1936 elections. Azaña led a weak minority government, but soon replaced Zamora as president in April. Prime Minister Casares failed to heed warnings of a military conspiracy involving several generals, who decided that the government had to be replaced if the dissolution of Spain was to be prevented. They organised a military coup in July
, which started the Spanish Civil War.

Constitutional monarchy

19th century

The

latifundia) as well as all of the important government positions. The landowners' power was challenged by the industrial and merchant sectors, largely unsuccessfully.[8] In addition to these regime changes and hierarchies, there was a series of civil wars that transpired in Spain known as the Carlist Wars throughout the middle of the century. There were three such wars: the First Carlist War (1833–1840), the Second Carlist War (1846–1849), and the Third Carlist War (1872–1876). During these wars, a right-wing political movement known as Carlism fought to institute a monarchial dynasty under a different branch of the House of Bourbon that was predicated and descended upon Don Infante Carlos María Isidro of Molina
.

King Amadeo I of Spain

In 1868,

caciques).[4][12]

The most traditionalist sectors of the

National Faction during the civil war itself), including during the Carlist Wars.[5]

Periodically, anarchism became popular among the working class, and was far stronger in Spain than anywhere else in Europe at the time.[5] Anarchists were easily defeated in clashes with government forces.[13]

20th century

Michele Angiolillo kills Cánovas in a health resort in 1897

In 1897, an Italian anarchist assassinated Prime Minister

agents provocateurs in Barcelona.[13] In the first two decades of the 20th century, the industrial working class grew in number. There was a growing discontent in the Basque country and Catalonia, where much of Spain's industry was based. They believed that the government favoured agrarianism and therefore failed to represent their interests.[14] The average illiteracy rate was 64%, with considerable regional variation. Poverty in some areas was great and mass emigration to the New World occurred in the first decade of the century.[15]

Spain's

maurismo, distinctly featuring a growing authoritarian pulsion, coalesced in 1913.[18] While largely discredited after 1923, it served as a breeding ground for the future ranks of the authoritarian right wing.[19]

In 1912 the

Catholic Church was inseparable from the system of oppression the people were under. It was around this time that republicanism came to the fore.[20]

The military was keen to avoid the break-up of the state and was increasingly inward-looking following the loss of Cuba. Regional

Tragic Week (Spanish: Semana Trágica) in Barcelona in 1909, when working class groups rioted against the call-up of reservists.[23] 48 churches and similar institutions were burned in anti-clerical attacks.[23] The riot was finally ended by the military; 1,725 members of such groups were put on trial, with five people sentenced to death.[24] These events led to the establishment of the National Confederation of Labour (Spanish: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, CNT), an anarchist-controlled trade union committed to anarcho-syndicalism.[24] It had over a million members by 1923.[25]

Prime Minister Miguel Primo de Rivera

Increasing exports during the

left-wing members founding the Communist Party in 1921.[28][29] The Restoration government failed to cope with an increasing number of strikes amongst the industrial workers in the north and the agricultural workers in the south.[29]

King Alfonso XIII abdicated to prevent a "fratricidal civil war".[36][nb 1] The Second Spanish Republic was formed.[30][34]

Second Republic

Main article: Second Spanish Republic

The Second Republic was a source of hope to the poorest in Spanish society and a threat to the richest, but had broad support from all segments of society.[37] Niceto Alcalá-Zamora was the first prime minister of the Republic.[38] The wealthier landowners and the middle class accepted the Republic because of the lack of any suitable alternative.[37] Elections to a constituent Cortes in June 1931 returned a large majority of Republicans and Socialists, with the PSOE gaining 116 seats and Lerroux's Radical Party 94.[39] Lerroux became foreign minister.[40] The government was controlled by a Republican–Socialist coalition, whose members had differing objectives. Some more conservative members believed that the removal of the monarchy was enough by itself, but the Socialists and leftist Republicans demanded much wider reforms.[37]

The state's financial position was poor. Supporters of the dictatorship attempted to block progress on reforming the economy.

Wall Street Crash and the onset of the Great Depression.[41] The government attempted to tackle the dire poverty in rural areas by instituting an eight-hour day and giving the security of tenure to farm workers.[42][43] Landlords complained. The effectiveness of the reforms was dependent on the skill of the local governance, which was often badly lacking.[44] Changes to the military were needed and education reform was another problem facing the Republic. The relationship between central government and the Basque and Catalan regions also needed to be decided.[45]

Effective opposition was led by three groups. The first group included Catholic movements such as the

Bolshevik plot.[48] Members of the CNT willing to cooperate with the Republic were forced out, and it continued to oppose the government.[49] The deeply unpopular Civil Guard (Spanish: Guardia Civil), founded in 1844, was charged with putting down revolts and was perceived as ruthless. Violence, including at Castilblanco in December 1931, was usual.[50]

On 11 May 1931 rumours that a taxi driver was supposedly killed by monarchists sparked a wave of anti-clerical violence throughout south west urban Spain beginning. An angry crowd assaulted and burned ABC newspaper. The government's reluctance to declare martial law in response and a comment attributed to Azaña that he would "rather all the churches in Spain be burnt than a single Republican harmed" prompted many Catholics to believe that the Republic was trying to prosecute Christianity.[51] Next day the Jesuit Church in the Calle de La Flor was also burned. Several other churches and convents were burned throughout the day. Over the next days some hundred churches were burned all over Spain. The government blamed the monarchists for sparking the riots and closed the ABC newspaper and El Debate.[52]

Parties in opposition to Alcalá-Zamora's provisional government gained the support of the church and the military.

Pedro Segura, was particularly vocal in his disapproval.[53] Until the 20th century, the Catholic Church had proved an essential part of Spain's character, although it had internal problems.[54] Segura was expelled from Spain in June 1931.[1] This prompted an outcry from the Catholic right, who cited oppression.[53] The military were opposed to reorganisation, including an increase in regional autonomy granted by the central government, and reforms to improve efficiency were seen as a direct attack. Officers were retired and a thousand had their promotions reviewed, including Francisco Franco, who served as director of the General Military Academy in Zaragoza, which was closed by Manuel Azaña.[43][55]

Constitution of 1931

Main article: Spanish Constitution of 1931

In October 1931 The conservative Catholic Republican prime-minister Alcalá-Zamora and the Interior Minister Miguel Maura resigned from the provisional government when the controversial articles 26 and 27 of the constitution, which strictly controlled Church property and prohibited religious orders from engaging in education were passed. During the debate held on 13 October, a night that Alcalá-Zamora considered the saddest night of his life, Azaña declared that Spain had "ceased to be Catholic"; although to an extent his statement was accurate,[nb 3] it was a politically unwise thing to say.[56] Manuel Azaña became the new provisional Prime Minister. Desiring the job for himself, Lerroux became alienated, and his Radical Party switched to the opposition,[57] leaving Azaña dependent on the Socialists for support. The Socialists, who favoured reform, objected to the lack of progress. The reforms that were made alienated the land-holding right.[58] Conditions for labourers remained dreadful; the reforms had not been enforced.[59] Rural landowners declared war on the government by refusing to plant crops.[60] Meanwhile, several agricultural strikes were harshly put down by the authorities.[59] Reforms, including the unsuccessful attempt to break up large holdings, failed to significantly improve the situation for rural workers.[60] By the end of 1931, King Alfonso, in exile, stopped attempting to prevent an armed insurrection of monarchists in Spain, and was tried and condemned to life imprisonment in absentia.[61]

A new constitution was approved on 9 December 1931.[62] The first draft, prepared by Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo and others, was rejected, and a much more daring text creating a "democratic republic of workers of every class" was promulgated.[63] It contained much in the way of emotive language and included many controversial articles, some of which were aimed at curbing the Catholic Church.[64][65] The constitution was reformist, liberal, and democratic in nature, and was welcomed by the Republican–Socialist coalition. It appalled landowners, industrialists, the organised church, and army officers.[62] At this point once the constituent assembly had fulfilled its mandate of approving a new constitution, it should have arranged for regular parliamentary elections and adjourned.[66] However fearing the increasing popular opposition the Radical and Socialist majority postponed the regular elections, therefore prolonging their way in power for two more years. This way the provisional republican government of Manuel Azaña initiated numerous reforms to what in their view would "modernize" the country.[66]

As the provisional government believed it was necessary to break the control the church had over Spanish affairs, the new constitution removed any special rights held by the Catholic Church.

Stanley Payne has argued that "the Republic as a democratic constitutional regime was doomed from the outset", because the far left considered any moderation of the anticlerical aspects of the constitution as totally unacceptable.[71]

Restrictions on Christian iconography in schools and hospitals and the ringing of bells came into force in January 1932. State control of cemeteries was also imposed. Many ordinary Catholics began to see the government as an enemy because of the educational and religious reforms.[57][72] Government actions were denounced as barbaric, unjust, and corrupt by the press.[73]

In August 1932 there was an unsuccessful uprising by General José Sanjurjo, who had been particularly appalled by events in Castilblanco.[74] The aims of the insurrection were vague,[74] and it quickly turned into a fiasco.[75][51] Among the generals tried and sent to Spanish colonies were four men who would go on to distinguish themselves fighting against the Republic in the civil war: Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre, Duke of Seville, Martin Alonso,[nb 4] Ricardo Serrador Santés, and Heli Rolando de Tella y Cantos.[75]

Azaña's government continued to ostracized the church. The Jesuits who were in charge of the best schools throughout the country were banned and had all their property confiscated. The army was reduced. Landowners were expropriated. Home rule was granted to Catalonia, with a local parliament and a president of its own.[66] In November 1932, Miguel de Unamuno, one of the most respected Spanish intellectuals, rector of the University of Salamanca, and himself a Republican, publicly raised his voice to protest. In a speech delivered on 27 November 1932, at the Madrid Ateneo, he protested: "Even the Inquisition was limited by certain legal guarantees. But now we have something worse: a police force which is grounded only on a general sense of panic and on the invention of non-existent dangers to cover up this over-stepping of the law."[76] In June 1933 Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Dilectissima Nobis, "On Oppression of the Church of Spain", raising his voice against the persecution of the Catholic Church in Spain.[76]

The political left became fractured, whilst the right united.

Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (Spanish: Confederatión Espanola de Derechas Autónomas, CEDA) to contest the 1933 election, and tacitly embraced Fascism. The right won an overwhelming victory, with the CEDA and the Radicals together winning 219 seats.[nb 5] They had spent far more on their election campaign than the Socialists, who campaigned alone.[79] The roughly 3,000 members of the Communist Party were at this point not significant.[80]

The "black biennium"

Main article: Second Biennium of the Second Spanish Republic (in Spanish)
See also: Asturian miners' strike of 1934 and Revolution of 1934

Following the elections of November 1933, Spain entered a period called the "black biennium" (Spanish: bienio negro)[81] by the left. The CEDA had won a plurality of seats, but not enough to form a majority. President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora declined to invite the leader of the most voted party, Gil Robles, to form a government, and instead invited the Radical Republican Party's Alejandro Lerroux to do so.[82] Immediately after the election, the Socialists alleged electoral fraud; they had, according to the PSOE, needed twice as many votes as their opponents to win each seat. They identified the lack of unity in the left as another reason for their defeat.[83] The Socialist opposition began to propagate a revolutionary ideal.[82] Stanley Payne asserts that the left demanded the cancellation of the elections not because the elections were fraudulent but because in its view those that had won the elections did not share the republican ideals.[84]

The government, with the backing of CEDA, set about removing price controls, selling state favours and monopolies, and removing the land reforms—to the landowners' considerable advantage. This created growing malnourishment in the south of Spain.[85] The agrarian reforms, still in force, went tacitly unenforced.[86] Radicals became more aggressive and conservatives turned to paramilitary and vigilante actions.

The first working class protest came from the anarchists on 8 December 1933, and was easily crushed by force in most of Spain; Zaragoza held out for four days before the

Alfonsist monarchists continued to prepare, with Carlists undergoing military drills in Navarre;[86] they received the backing of Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Gil Robles struggled to control the CEDA's youth wing, which copied Germany and Italy's youth movements. Monarchists turned to the Fascist Falange Española, under the leadership of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, as a way to achieve their aims.[89] Open violence occurred in the streets of Spanish cities.[90] Official statistics state that 330 people were assassinated in addition to 213 failed attempts, and 1,511 people wounded in political violence. Those figures also indicate a total of 113 general strikes were called and 160 religious buildings were destroyed, typically by arson.[91][92]

Lerroux resigned in April 1934, after President Zamora hesitated to sign an Amnesty Bill which let off the arrested members of the 1932 plot. He was replaced by

Esquerra in Catalonia, who were attempting to continue the republic's reforms.[96] Efforts to remove local councils from socialist control prompted a general strike, which was brutally put down by Interior Minister Salazar Alonso,[nb 6] with the arrest of four deputies and other significant breaches of articles 55 and 56 of the constitution.[97] The Socialist Landworkers' Federation (Spanish: Federación Nacional da Trabajadores de la Tierra, FNTT), a trade union founded in 1930, was effectively prevented from operating until 1936.[98]

On 26 September, the CEDA announced it would no longer support the RRP's minority government. It was replaced by an RRP cabinet, again led by Lerroux, that included three members of the CEDA.

Domingo Batet,[nb 7] charged with putting down the revolt, showed similar restraint. In response, Lluís Companys was arrested and Catalan autonomy was suspended.[101][102]

The 1934 strike was unsuccessful in most of Spain.[103] However, in Asturias in northern Spain, it developed into a bloody revolutionary uprising, trying to overthrow the legitimate democratic regime. Around 30,000 workers were called to arms in ten days.[104] Armed with dynamite, rifles, carbines and light and heavy machine guns, the revolutionaries managed to take the whole province of Asturias committing numerous murders of policemen, clergymen and civilians and destroying religious buildings including churches, convents and part of the university at Oviedo.[105][106][107] In the occupied areas the rebels officially declared the proletarian revolution and abolished regular money.[108]

The war minister, Diego Hidalgo wanted General Franco to lead the troops. However, President Alcalá-Zamora, aware of Franco's monarchist sympathies, opted to send General López Ochoa to Asturias to lead the government forces; hoping that his reputation as a loyal Republican would minimize the bloodshed.[109] Franco was put in informal command of the military effort against the revolt.[110]

Government troops, some brought in from Spain's Army of Africa,[111] killed men, women and children and carried out summary executions after the main cities of Asturias were retaken.[112][3] About 1,000 workers were killed, with about 250 government soldiers left dead.[113] Atrocities were carried out by both sides.[114] The failed rising in Asturias marked the effective end of the Republic.[115] Months of retaliation and repression followed; torture was used on political prisoners.[116] Even moderate reformists within the CEDA became sidelined. The two generals in charge of the campaign, Franco and Manuel Goded Llopis, were seen as heroes.[117] Azaña was unsuccessfully made out to be a revolutionary criminal by his right-wing opponents.[118] Gil Robles once again prompted a cabinet collapse, and five positions in Lerroux's new government were conceded to CEDA, including one awarded to Gil Robles himself. Farm workers' wages were halved, and the military was purged of republican members and reformed. Those loyal to Robles were promoted, and Franco was made Chief of Staff.[119] Stanley Payne believes that in the perspective of contemporary European history the repression of the 1934 revolution was relatively mild and that the key leaders of the rebellion were treated with leniency.[120] There were no mass killing after the fighting was over as was in the case of the suppression of the Paris Commune or the Russian 1905 revolution; all death sentences were commuted aside from two, army sergeant and deserter Diego Vásquez, who fought alongside the miners, and a worker known as "El Pichilatu" who had committed serial killings. Little effort was actually made to suppress the organisations that had carried out the insurrection, resulting in most being functional again by 1935. Support for fascism was minimal and did not increase, while civil liberties were restored in full by 1935, after which the revolutionaries had a generous opportunity to pursue power through electoral means. [121]

With this rebellion against established political legitimate authority, the Socialists showed identical repudiation of representative institutional system that anarchists had practiced.[122] The Spanish historian Salvador de Madariaga, an Azaña's supporter, and an exiled vocal opponent of Francisco Franco asserted that: "The uprising of 1934 is unforgivable. The argument that Mr Gil Robles tried to destroy the Constitution to establish fascism was, at once, hypocritical and false. With the rebellion of 1934, the Spanish left lost even the shadow of moral authority to condemn the rebellion of 1936"[123][124][nb 8]

In 1935 Azaña and Indalecio Prieto started to unify the left and to combat its extreme elements. They staged large, popular rallies of what would become the

Nazi propaganda techniques.[125] The right began to plan how to best overthrow the Republic, rather than taking control of it.[126]

The government was weak, and the influence of the revolutionary

Casares Quiroga, was weak. Although the right also voted for Zamora's removal, this was a watershed event which inspired conservatives to give up on parliamentary politics.[132] Leon Trotsky wrote that Zamora had been Spain's "stable pole", and his removal was another step towards revolution.[133] Largo Caballero held out for a collapse of the republican government, to be replaced with a socialist one as in France.[134]

CEDA turned its campaign chest over to army plotter Emilio Mola. Monarchist José Calvo Sotelo replaced CEDA's Gil Robles as the right's leading spokesman in parliament.[132][135] The Falange expanded rapidly, and many members of the Juventudes de Acción Popular joined. They successfully created a sense of militancy on the streets to try to justify an authoritarian regime.[136] Prieto did his best to avoid revolution by promoting a series of public works and civil order reforms, including of parts of the military and civil guard. Largo Caballero took a different attitude, continuing to preach of an inevitable overthrow of society by the workers.[137] Largo Caballero also disagreed with Prieto's idea of a new Republican–Socialist coalition.[138] With Largo Caballero's acquiescence, communists alarmed the middle classes by quickly taking over the ranks of socialist organisations.[137] This alarmed the middle classes.[139] The division of the Popular Front prevented the government from using its power to prevent right-wing militancy.[138] The CEDA came under attack from the Falange, and Prieto's attempts at moderate reform were attacked by the Socialist Youth. Sotelo continued to do his best to make conciliation impossible.[138] Casares failed to heed Prieto's warnings of a military conspiracy involving several generals who disliked professional politicians and wanted to replace the government to prevent the dissolution of Spain.[140] The military coup of July that started the Spanish Civil War was devised with Mola as director and Sanjurjo as a figurehead leader.[141]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ His statement included the sentence "I am determined to have nothing to do with setting one of my countrymen against another in a fratricidal civil war." from Thomas (1961). pp. 18–19.
  2. ^ See also: es:Asociación Católica de Propagandistas (in Spanish)
  3. ^ According to (Thomas 1961, p. 31), it was estimated that around two-thirds of Spaniards were not practising Catholics.
  4. ^ See also: es:Pablo Martín Alonso (in Spanish)
  5. ^ Thomas (1961). p. 66. allocates 207 seats to the political right.
  6. ^ See also: es:Rafael Salazar Alonso (in Spanish)
  7. ^ See also: es:Domingo Batet (in Spanish)
  8. ^ In the original: "El alzamiento de 1934 es imperdonable. La decisión del presidente de la República de llamar al poder a la CEDA era inatacable y hasta debida desde hacía ya tiempo. El argumento de que el señor Gil Robles intentaba destruir la Constitución para instaurar el fascismo era, a la vez, hipócrita y falso. ….. Con la rebelión de 1934, la izquierda española perdió hasta la sombra de autoridad para condenar la rebelión de 1936."

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Further reading

  • Brenan, Gerald (2014). The Spanish labyrinth : an account of the social and political background of the Civil War. First published 1943. (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
    ISBN 978-1107431751
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