REPUBLICANS WIN SPANISH CIVIL WAR

What occurred prior to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936?

The origins of the Spanish Civil War went back a long way. Spain under the Borbón monarchy was an extremely unequal society and a predominantly agrarian one, in which the politics of the nation had been run largely in the interests of the landowners. First, between 1923 and 1930, there was a dictatorship that failed to resolve any of the monarchy’s problems and this was followed, between the beginning of 1930 and April 1931, by an attempt to get back to how things had been under the disastrously failed monarchy. On 4 April 1931 the democratic Second Republic was founded. This was run by a coalition of socialists and what in Spain are called Republicans, which simply means they were not monarchists but liberals in favour of a republic. This moderate coalition introduced a series of reforms, including agrarian reform,