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  2. Women in the Spanish Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Feminism portal. v. t. e. Women in the Spanish Civil War saw the conflict start on 17 July 1936. The war would impact women's everyday lives. Feminist solutions to problems of women in this period often took an individualistic approach. For women of the Second Republic, by close of the Civil War their efforts for liberation would fail.

  3. Spanish Revolution of 1936 - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Spanish Revolution was a workers' social revolution that began at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and for two to three years resulted in the widespread implementation of anarchist and, more broadly, libertarian socialist organizational principles throughout various portions of the country, primarily Catalonia, Aragon ...

  4. Spanish Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...

  5. La Adelita - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of " adelitas ", or soldaderas, of the Mexican Revolution. " La Adelita " is one of the most famous corridos of the Mexican Revolution. Over the years, it has had many adaptations. The ballad was inspired by Adela Velarde Pérez, a Chihuahuense woman who joined the Maderista movement in the early stages of the revolution and fell in ...

  6. Cecilia (Spanish singer) - Wikipedia

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    darboukas. Years active. 1970–1976. Labels. CBS. Epic. Evangelina Sobredo Galanes, known as Cecilia, (11 October 1948 – 2 August 1976) was a Spanish singer-songwriter. She took her stage name from the song "Cecilia" by Simon and Garfunkel.

  7. Red Terror (Spain) - Wikipedia

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    Ruiz, Julius (2015), The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1107682931 Ruiz, Julius Ruiz (2007), "Defending the Republic: The García Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936", Journal of Contemporary History , 42 (1): 97–115, doi : 10.1177/0022009407071625 , JSTOR ...

  8. Revolutionary Catalonia - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Revolutionary Catalonia[ 1 ] (21 July 1936 – 8 May 1937) was the period in which the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeast Spain was controlled or largely influenced by various anarchist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War era. Although the constitutional Catalan institution of ...

  9. Soldaderas - Wikipedia

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    Soldaderas, often called Adelitas, were women in the military who participated in the conflict of the Mexican Revolution, ranging from commanding officers to combatants to camp followers. [ 1 ] ". In many respects, the Mexican revolution was not only a men's but a women's revolution." [ 2 ] Although some revolutionary women achieved officer ...