ABSTRACT
Historians have pointed to two main elements in Spain between 1936 and 1939. The first is a struggle between two broadly-based coalitions, with sharply contrasting ideologies, for the right to shape the country’s future social and political institutions. The second is the impact of this struggle on the rest of the Continent. E.H.Carr, in fact, described the Spanish struggle as a ‘European Civil War fought on Spanish territory’.1 This chapter will suggest reasons for the victory of the Right in the domestic conflict and examine the implications for the European powers.
