The Spanish Revolution (1931-39) Author_V.I. Lenin all as part of a

all as part of a process towards greater and greater knowledge of the world we live in

As Lenin put it: "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement"

and revolutionary expropriation

Leon Trotsky described Germany in 1931 as “the key to the international situation”

Trotsky notes

The Spanish Revolution (1931-39) Author_V.I. Lenin all as part of aSpain in the 1930s was the last great cauldron of revolution and counterrevolution before the onslaught of World War II. In response to the growing social crisis, and faced with an attack by the forces of international fascism, the Spanish workers and peasants began to seize the factories and the land. But they were led by an uneasy and ill fated coalition of bourgeois liberals, Stalinists, Anarchists, and Socialists, more afraid of the plebeian