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With the onset of the Great Depression, the government tried to assist rural Spain by instituting an eight-hour day and redistributing land tenure to farm workers. [35] [36] The rural workers lived in some of the worst poverty in Europe at the time and the government tried to increase their wages and improve working conditions. This estranged ...
Pages in category "1930s in Spain" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Other events of 1930 List of years in Spain: Events in the year 1930 in Spain. Incumbents. Monarch: Alfonso XIII;
The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República Española), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (Spanish: Segunda República Española), was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939.
CEDA supported the Lerroux government in exchange for three ministerial positions. Hostility between the left and the right increased after the formation of the government. Spain experienced general strikes and street conflicts. Noted among the strikes was the miners' revolt in northern Spain and riots in Madrid. Nearly all rebellions were ...
Overall, the political system in Spain had changed dramatically since the last election. [22] The failure of the Spanish left was also partially attributable to the 1933 electoral law. The second Azaña government had amended the law to give disproportionate seats to pluralities and majorities, which ended up favouring broad coalitions.
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, syndicalist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War era.
General Primo de Rivera, who had run a military dictatorship in Spain since 1923, resigned as head of government in January 1930. [1] There was little support for a return to the pre-1923 system, and the monarchy had lost credibility by backing the military government. [1]