Primaveras trágicas, rebeliones militares y terrores rojos en España. La violencia política de 1936 en la provincia de Guadalajara

Abstract

This article examines the political violence deployed in Spain during 1936 using the province of Guadalajara as a case study. Its objective is to clarify whether collective actions before and after the military rebellion of the 18th of July were connected. Firstly, it recounts and analyses the social and political mobilization that took place during the first half of the year. Then, it describes and studies the political violence deployed during the rest of the year. The article argues that political violence was not a determining factor in the political process during the first six and a half months of 1936, that there was not any continuity between political violence before and after the beginning of the war, and that the social and political unrest prior to that war was only one of the various reasons which explain the political violence subsequent to the military insurrection.