Romanones

The history of Spain between 1923 and 1936 is that of a failed transition to democracy. Neither the reformist monarchists nor the republicans were able to consolidate an inclusive parliamentary and democratic regime that would guarantee, in peace and stability, the freedoms and rights of the Spanish. The biography and long political experience of Álvaro Figueroa y Torres, Count of Romanones, is a good example of the attempts to democratize the liberal regime of the Restoration (1876-1923) and the next generation of politicians during the Second Republic. Therefore, the Civil War of 1936 is not the axis of the Spanish political crisis of the twentieth century, but the consequence of those thirteen years misdirected and administered, which constitutes a more comprehensive, analytical and, above all, less Cainite thesis than the so-called "historical memory".