It's worth revisiting in light of our current moment. From the essay: The Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939) suffered one of the most accelerated cases of democratic decline in European history.

Some 40,000 foreign men and women joined up as volunteers, fighting alongside the forces of the democratic Second Spanish Republic and against the rise of fascism in Europe in late 1930s.

Last week “The Father of the Second Spanish Republic,” eloquent, softhearted President Niceto Alcalà Zamora y Torres, 58, was brazenly voted out of office, 238-to-5, by the Spanish Cortes ...

Before receiving a global release, The Red Virgin premiered at the 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2024, before earning itself a theatrical release in Spain.

Spain’s Francisco Franco offers a third lens. The Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939) descended into chaos as leftist factions — socialists, anarchists, and communists — pushed radical ...

Following the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, his grandfather, King Alonso XIII, was forced into exile to Rome with the Spanish royal family. When Francisco Franco's reign ...

Up for election was a second President of the Second Spanish Republic to replace kindly old Niceto Alcalá (“Father of the Republic”) Zamora, brutally booted out of office last month by the ...

“It is important to remember that Cardenas was president of the only democracy that was loyal and allied to the Second Spanish Republic, which was in danger.” On 6 August 1936, 88 years ago ...

It would seem to me to offer only the prospect of battening down the real will of the Spanish people under legalisms and juridical formulas. The people do not want the restoration of that Republic ...

For many years, I was a "no sabo" kid. And I hated it. As a second-generation Nuyorican, I grew up surrounded by Spanish. My mother worked a lot, and that meant my sister and I spent the majority ...