CASE / 1936–1939

Anarchist initiatives in Republican Spain, 1936–1939

A bounded examination of anarchist-led workplace, militia, and women's organizing amid civil war and politically plural Republican institutions.

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Boundary: Selected anarchist-led initiatives in Republican-held Spain from July 1936 through defeat in 1939; not Spain as an anarchist society or a complete history of the war.
Why this case: The episode tests organizational proposals and ideological classification under war, coalition government, and gender hierarchy.
Anarchist initiatives during the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939

Selected institutions from July 1936 through 1939, with political plurality and uneven geography kept explicit.

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Mujeres Libres formed an autonomous women's organization within the Spanish libertarian movement.

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