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Spanish Civil War, a large collection of articles on the civil war and social revolution at libcom.org. The Spanish Revolution (1936), a huge collection on the Spanish Civil War from an anarchist perspective. The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action, an essay on Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, hosted on the Pierre J. Proudhon memorial server.
The Spanish Civil War involved large numbers of non-Spanish citizens who participated in combat and advisory positions. Britain and France led a political alliance of 27 nations that pledged non-intervention , including an embargo on all arms exports to Spain.
Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming ...
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-84832-1. Buckley, Henry (1940). The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: a Witness to the Spanish Civil War. [ISBN missing] Casanova, Julián (2010). The Spanish Republic and Civil War. Cambridge University Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-1139490573.
Spanish Revolution of 1854, also known as the Vicalvarada, a revolution in Madrid that began the Bienio progresista; Glorious Revolution (Spain) (1868), a revolution against Queen Isabella II; Petroleum Revolution (1873), a workers' revolution in Alcoy; Cantonal rebellion (1873-1874), a cantonalist revolt to establish a federal republic from ...
In 1820 Rafael del Riego led the Spanish army in revolt against absolutism, which began a period of Liberal rule known as the Trienio Liberal and ended the threat of invasion against the Río de la Plata. As a result, the royalist cause began to collapse in the Americas.
Coat of arms of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon, an institution that was created during the Spanish Revolution of 1936. The handing out of arms to the workers' parties and organizations caused them to quickly constitute armed militias to confront the rebellion in the military sphere and to move forward with a profound social revolution.
After the Spanish Revolution of 1868 deposed Isabella II, there was established a provisional government and a regency headed by Francisco Serrano y Domínguez, who acted as Head of State, from October 8, 1868 until December 4, 1870 while it was requested a new monarch.