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Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War.

This is our first episode in our Spanish Civil War interview series.

In the decades before the Spanish Civil War, Spain had experienced a very rocky political period.

The Spanish economy had been somewhat precarious, even before the economic upheavals of the First World War and the resulting economic

booms and busts of that war would set the country up for a tumultuous 1920s and 1930s.

There were many different political beliefs present in Spain at this time, and one political

ideology that would gain a lot of traction within Spain was anarchism.

In the following interview I chatted with Dr. James Yeoman to discuss

why the Spanish anarchist movement was so well supported within Spain, and how the role

of anarchist groups both within Spain and as viewed by international anarchists played such

an important role in the years before the Civil War. One concept that Dr. Yeoman and I discuss quite a bit in this episode is anarchism.

And what I realized after I recorded the interview was that anarchism is perhaps a political

ideology that is not widely known.

I think if I were to ask most people to tell me what an anarchist believes, the responses

would be something close to chaos. I think that's kind of the denotation

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