State And Class Before And After The Civil War In Spain

The transformation of the state and classes before and after the Civil War in Spain is discussed in this study. First, with the analysis of the class contradictions and main economic structure before the war, the political hegemony of the Church, military and monarchy will be questioned. In the second section how Franco achieved the transformation of class relations under the Spanish Fascism is going to be shown. This article mainly deals with the question of how an authoritarian-fascist state, which did not participate to the Second World War and not defeated as a result, could continue to be in power and how the alliances between the classes occurred and transformed to reach that end