Asturias Rising - CONSEQUENCES

Question 1

What was the short-term consequence of the Asturias Rising?

Answer 1

allowed gov to maintain social order against lw resistance

Question 2

What was the long-term consequences of the Asturias Rising?

Answer 2

• created a bitter legacy of ill-feeling
• further polarised already fractured rival political factions

Question 3

What happened to the trade unionists + the relationship of the government with the trade union?

Answer 3

• bitterness increased by the mass dismissal of trade unionists from various jobs in the region + many others imprisoned
• clear reflection of how the new regime eroded much of the TU rights achieved between 1931-33
• many leading socialists also jailed

Question 4

By the end of 1934?

Answer 4

• notion of open + pluralistic Spanish Republic that appealed to all political viewpoints seemed a very distant prospect
• violence was to be a foretaste of things to come for the Spanish nation