Conflicto, politización y violencia: el mundo rural castellano-leonés durante la II República

Abstract

This paper studies the situation stirred up by the opening of the Second Republic (1931–1936) in Spanish rural areas and specifically in Castile and León. It was characterised by a wide politicisation of the different components of the rural commu­nities amd by the profusion of labour disputes that, with the passing of time, ended in political violence and ultimately revealed the ideological polarisation of the local peasantry. Much of the documentary evidence presented here relies on court records from the province of Valladolid.