Spanish Civil War
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The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with anarchists, of the communist and syndicalist variety, fought against a revolt by the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives and Catholics, led by a military group among whom General Francisco Franco soon achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets and was variously viewed as class struggle, a war of religion, a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, and between fascism and communism.
Figures identified with the Republican side
- W. H. Auden
- Robert Capa
- Federico García Lorca (assassinated)
- Egon Erwin Kisch
- Pablo Picasso
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Dos Passos
- Jose Robles
- Laurie Lee
- George Orwell
- Luis Buñuel
See also
- Spanish Civil War, 1936
- Spanish Civil War, 1937
- Spanish Civil War, 1938–1939
- List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish Civil War
- Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic
- Guernica (painting)
- The Falling Soldier
- Foreign involvement in the Spanish Civil War
- List of war films and TV specials#Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
- List of foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
- List of surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War
- List of non-participants who died defending their freedom of conscience
- Polish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
- Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
- European Civil War
- Spain in World War II
- SS Cantabria
- Pacifism in Spain
- Spanish Republican Armed Forces
- Art and culture in Francoist Spain
