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«Reviviendo el sueño de varias generaciones»: comunales y reforma agraria en León en la II República (1931-1936)

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  • José A. Serrano Álvarez

    (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

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In 1931, the provisional government of Spain’s Second Republic launched a true agrarian reform focused on improving the conditions of the peasantry. This ‘reformist’ agenda went beyond the expropriation and distribution of large estates (latifundios) to amend agricultural contracts and restructure the labour market, as well as proposing the abolition of seigniorial taxes and the recovery of commons that had been privatised. In León, within the framework of this reform programme, communal land rights that had been dispossessed in the 19th century were restored to the villages, and ploughing was allowed on common lands. While striving for the consolidation of small peasant farms and taking note of popular demands for access to and distribution of land, Republican reformism gave peasants a central role through a revision of liberal agrarian reforms. A moral and ethical explanation can be found behind peasant demands to recover common lands, relating to a defence of a peasant culture and way of life.

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  • José A. Serrano Álvarez, 2014. "«Reviviendo el sueño de varias generaciones»: comunales y reforma agraria en León en la II República (1931-1936)," Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, issue 62, pages 147-175, april.
    • Handle: RePEc:seh:journl:y:2014:i:62:m:april:p:147-175
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    Keywords

    commons; Spain’s Second Republic; land reform; abolishing seigniorial rights; recovery of common lands;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • N54 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Europe: 1913-
    • P32 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Collectives; Communes; Agricultural Institutions
    • P48 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies

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