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The Second Republic (exposure Miguel Hernández)

La Puerta del Sol to the Republican flag hoisted (obtained from flickr.com )

La Puerta del Sol was a true madness, people crowded Republican waving flags, climbed to streetlights, cars and trams, to see how Manuel Azana, among other leaders, proclaimed the Republic from the balcony of governance, had broken a joy full of hope for a better future but that would end in tragedy.

Republic II provisional government 1931 (Alcalá Zamora in the center, left Azana Lerroux, Prieto, Largo Caballero ...) (Obtained from blog.canalsur.es)

was the April 14, 1931 after the municipal elections as a referendum raised between monarchists and Republican parties, won by the Republicans in all capitals, not in the villages, King Alfonso XIII was left without support and chose exile, was introduced then Republic: II was born Republic in Spain.

the new republic symbols and articles of the constitution of 1931 (obtained from img.photobucket.com)

The Constitution of 1931 placed Spain among the most advanced democracies, and women could vote for the first time in the 1933 elections, but also produced dramatic changes such as limiting social influence of the Catholic Church.

Distribution of seats among parties in the Constituent Assembly (obtained from ih5.ggpht.com)

The situation was very complicated, Republic inherited a historic social and economic backwardness, where the majority of the population engaged in primary sector, many illiterate, with a large number of laborers living in poverty and a concentrated industry in Catalonia, Madrid and the Basque Country but underdeveloped and suffer the influence of the great crash of 1929.

Poverty and launched many farmers need to occupy land of aristocrats prompted by the CNT, were harshly repressed by the government of Azana (obtained d e4 . bp.blogspot.com)

The government of the Republic tried to reduce these problems, relying on important reforms such as land reform, to give land to the laborers and increase production agrarian military reform that would ensure democracy in Spain or the introduction of autonomous status to curb the problem of nationalism.

Children learning to read in a school Republican (obtained from www.enciezadigital.com)

In the years of the republic there was also a cultural momentum, starting with a huge education effort, where intellectuals took the lead, such as Federico García Lorca formed a traveling theater group, La Barraca to bring culture to the people until then forgotten. It is during these years that Miguel Hernández travels to Madrid twice for a career as a writer and participates in the Educational Missions , promoting education and culture.

university theater company La Barraca, directed by Lorca (obtained from blip.tv)

However, reforms were limited or frustrated by problems of political division between unions (CNT and UGT), Republican Party (AR, PRP, ORGA), the PSOE led by Indalecio Prieto and Largo Caballero, the Radical party of Alexander Lerroux (discredited by scandals corruption) and the appearance of the right since 1933 around a new party, CEDA (English Confederation of Autonomous Rights), directed by J.M ª Gil Robles, who wanted a more conservative policy.

Poster Photography Revolution of 1934 with Franco Azaña charge of suppressing the revolution in Asturias (obtained from 1.bp.blogspot.com)

Due to the cessation of the reforms and progress on the right in October 1934 broke out of a socialist revolution led by the UGT , which only succeeded in the basin Asturias mining and industrial, but was strongly repressed by the army, while The attempt failed in Catalonia independence ERC led by Lluis Companys. Since announcing the armed confrontation between the English.

Signs of the popular front for the elections of February 1936 (obtained from 1 . pb.blogspot.com)

In elections 1936 the English society was divided into two positions, left prorrepublicana (National Front) and anti-Republican right (CEDA, National Bloc and Falange). Soon the fighting moved from political debates to the streets. The murder of Lieutenant Castillo (linked on the left) and Deputy José Calvo Sotelo (linked at right) were a foretaste of what erupted in the summer: the attempted coup and the ensuing English Civil War.

Signs on both sides of the English Civil War (obtained from www.elhistoriador.es)

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The Cinema of the 80s

Poster Ridley Scott (image obtained from www.tustrucos.com)

The Eighties is a time of great films. The Empire Strikes Back, Blue Velvet, Amadeus, Blade Runner . Many films, like the latter, were crushed by critics the time of its release and yet, years later are celebrated as contemporary classics.

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Start era Spielberg, giving the best of himself to Indiana Jones and ET . Is the new King Midas: everything he touches turns to gold. The public seems to return to the halls in search of entertainment.

Poster ET (Obtained from blogs.lavozde galicia.es)

Poster Back to the Future (obtained from megaviload . com)

appear Reimi Sam, and Tim Burton born and independent film Jim Jarmush ( Strangers in paradise , 1984) and Coen brothers ( Blood Simple , 1984). Movies that will become commercially since Sundance, festival sponsored by Robert Redford in the state of Utah that was intended to cover the territory novice directors and scouts.

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In Spain, the years of Almodóvar (from Pepi, Lucy, boom ... to What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Women the verge of a nervous breakdown and Átame ). Rafael Azcona write the script for The Living Forest , with Alfredo Landa. It is exceeding the period of unveiling.

Girls Almodovar Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (obtained from filmin.es)

José Luis Rope gives a personal, original and fun with Dawn is no little , opening its own genre: the "rural surrealism."

Movie Poster (Picture obtained from leelibros.com)

Moreover , Hive and The Holy Innocents of Camus (based book of CJ Cela and Miguel Delibes) , The trip to nowhere and Bicycles are for summer of Fernando Fernan Gomez and The heifer of Berlanga recovered memory the Spain of War Civil and Franco.

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also are Fernando Trueba , Bigas Luna , José Luis Borau and Gonzalo Suárez. Despite all these names and others, turned to talk of crisis: we could not compete with the all-powerful Hollywood film industry and the revival of the late seventies seemed a mirage. Were U.S. films, and little English cinema. Yet José Luis Garci won an Oscar with Restart (1982).

JL Garci with his Oscar, along with the protagonists of the film (obtained from muchocine.net)

Ferris Bueller Waistcoat

November 9, 1989 FELL THE BERLIN WALL!

In the 80's the communist bloc was undergoing a serious economic and social crisis, and only because of political repression was achieved maintain order in the Soviet Union and satellite countries of Eastern Europe (including the RDA ), but in the late 80's and thanks to the new policy of openness the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev (Perestroika ) the repressive control was relaxed.

satirical Graffiti on the western wall, symbolizing the alliance between RDA (Honecker) and the USSR (Brezhnev) (obtained from lavidaenlila.files.wordpress.com)

OPENS THE WALL !

the late 80's discontent in the GDR was general and had continued protests and demonstrations. Many young people fled westward via Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Then, with great surprise on 9 November 1989 the government of the GDR said open border crossings to cross RFA and the desire for freedom did the rest.

the German East and West peacefully took to the wall (obtained from nocaptionneeded.com)

immediately erupted impromptu mass movement that took peacefully to assault the wall, thousands of people climbed the more than 3 meters , crossed the mythical west to visit their shops, while others Berlin, armed with picks and hammers began to destroy , given the inaction of the government of the GDR and especially the Soviet Union , perhaps to avoid it took place a new bloodbath like the one in Tiananmen Square (China .)

destroying the wall with the passivity of the soldiers (obtained from vuelosberlin.org)

NO WALL, FAREWELL TO COMMUNISM

The fall of the Berlin Wall and back reunification of Germany (1990) put the lace to the communist bloc collapsed shortly ( the USSR disappeared in 1991), except for isolated cases as China, Cuba and Korea North. Thus, in a bipolar world is moving into a new stage (e he new world order ) characterized by the predominance of multilateralism (higher prevalence of UN and economic and political associations as Union European ) and later in the century, marked by Jihadist terrorism following the attacks on the Twin Towers of 11/09/2001.