Ricardolindo
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Suppose Miguel Primo de Rivera's coup had failed. What would have happened to Spain? Would the monarchy still have been abolished? Would there still be a civil war?
The 1910s had been a very tumultuous time in politics, with powerful strikes, unstable governments and the rise of regionalism, so the ground was laid for some kind of revolution or army intervention at some point. My hot take is that some kind of civil war was unavoidable after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, so either way you'd end up with an Italian model of the king being subservient to a fascist strongman, a socialist republic or just some kind of institutional break in a rather liberal framework à la 1931 Republic.Suppose Miguel Primo de Rivera's coup had failed. What would have happened to Spain? Would the monarchy still have been abolished? Would there still be a civil war?
The 1910s had been a very tumultuous time in politics, with powerful strikes, unstable governments and the rise of regionalism, so the ground was laid for some kind of revolution or army intervention at some point. My hot take is that some kind of civil war was unavoidable after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, so either way you'd end up with an Italian model of the king being subservient to a fascist strongman, a socialist republic or just some kind of institutional break in a rather liberal framework à la 1931 Republic.