Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Jul 2011)
Socialismo y comunismo en la retaguardia valenciana, 1936-1939. De aliados a enemigos
Abstract
The Valencian province was one of the main political scenes in the conflict between socialism and communism, very important by its implications after the Spanish Civil War. The essential factors for this hard confrontation between these two political movements were: the founding, in October of 1936, of a communist peasant union, opposed to revolution and in conflict with the socialist one, that defended collectivization; the attack to Largo Caballero’s leadership by communists from the beginning of 1937; and the huge increase of the members of communist movement that questioned the socialist hegemony. The conflict started with achievements in favor of communist movement, but, finally, it culminated, in March of 1939, in the Casado’s coup d’état. In Valencia, this coup was supported by Manuel Molina Conejero, the Provincial Governor and the leader of the provincial socialism.