Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic, by Matthew Kerry
2022; Oxford University Press; Volume: 137; Issue: 585 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ehr/ceac024
ISSN1477-4534
Autores Tópico(s)Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
ResumoMatthew Kerry has written an important study of the radicalisation of the coal-mining communities of Asturias on the Cantabrian coast of northern Spain. The region’s miners were closely associated with the socialist affiliated Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, General Union of Workers). Kerry seeks to explain the ‘breadth, nature and dynamism of conflict and militancy in the coalfields’ (p. 3) and to do so by examining the trajectory of radicalism in the region from the establishment of the Second Republic in 1931 through Spain’s October Revolution in 1934, and ending with the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936. Kerry bases his study on local documentation, especially from the mining communities’ own archives, making extensive use of local records (notably municipal and court records) and provincial newspapers. He argues that the word community ‘encapsulates’ the Spanish pueblo and blurs the distinction between geography and collective identity. Community serves him...
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