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Spanish Civil War

Spanish politician and leader of the Radical Republican Party, helped bring republicanism to the fore in Catalonia

19th Century
Barcelona, Spain

Alejandro Lerroux, Spanish politician and leader of the Radical Republican Party, helped bring republicanism to the fore in Catalonia, where poverty was particularly acute. Growing resentment of conscription and of the military culminated in the Tragic Week in Barcelona in 1909.


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