ABSTRACT
From the start of the military insurrection until Franco’s declaration that the Civil War had ended, the governments of Republican Spain were led by five Popular Front premiers: Casares Quiroga (mid-May–18 July 1936), Martínez Barrio (18– 19 July 1936), Giral (19 July–4 September 1936), Largo Caballero (4 September 1936–15 May 1937) and Negrín (15 May 1937– finally departed Spain 7 March 1939).
