Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1976

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Derfler, Leslie

Abstract

The Spanish Socialist Party must bear primary responsibility for the failure of the second Republic's agrarian program. The need of Spanish Socialism to achieve acceptance as a legally constituted political movement conflicted with its need to maintain ideological purity. This contradiction was manifested in the agrarian reform legislation. Socialist leaders, caught between these two needs, were unable to provide viable solutions to Spain's agrarian problems. Their inability to perceive Spain's real agrarian needs resulted from the party's gyrations on agrarian reform and from internal, ideological conflict. By the end of 1933, this conflict divided Spanish Socialism into two camps: moderate and revolutionary. Therefore, the Socialists' agrarian reform program, which in 1931 was committed to changing the land tenure system within a democratic, rational, economic framework had to be discarded in favor of agrarian revolution.

Extent

102 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13809

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