El anarquismo español con, por y ante la Segunda República Española (1931-1936)

Abstract

The history of the anarchist movement has been dominated by a series of commonplaces that have deformed it. However, when we look at the documentary sources, we see an anarchist movement very different from the one commonly presented. The present work starts from an analysis of the historiography of anarchism and then goes into the history of anarchism during the republican period between 1931 and 1936. It establishes the libertarian prominence at the time of the proclamation of the Republic, the dispositions that entailed the confrontation with the reforms of the first biennium and the internal division of the CNT, to end with a new turn towards the workers’ alliance. The article is a complex understanding of a fundamental movement in the history of the first third of the 20th century and of the Second Spanish Republic.