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Spain Tries to Avoid Revolution.
- Source :
- New Republic; 5/20/36, Vol. 87 Issue 1120, p38-40, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 1936
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Abstract
- Focuses on the social conditions of peasants in Spain. Efforts of Prime Minister Don Manuel Azaña, to improve the conditions of peasants in the country; Support of socialist and communist groups to the government; Need for social reforms in Spain; Standard of living of Spanish peasants; Description of huts in which peasants live; Remnants of feudalism prevalent in Spanish peasantry; Agriculture techniques used in the country; Lack of peasant market in Spain; Features of the Land-Reform Program of Azaña; Role of the program in forcing landowners to rent portions of their estates to yunteros or peasants; Average hectare of land granted to peasants to solve the land problem; Statement that the Program may weaken the Socialist Party and landowning classes.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 87
- Issue :
- 1120
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15056763