De la ebullición a la contrarrevolución. Los significados del orden público en los libros de los gobernantes de la Segunda República española, 1931-1936 = From Boiling to Counterrevolution. The Meanings of Public Order in the Books of the Rulers of...

Abstract

This article analyses the meanings of Public Order attributed by the rulers of the Spanish Second Republic in the framework of the republican political culture, by studying their memoirs, diaries and books. To broaden the understanding of this term, the study of other related concepts in four different levels of semantic concretion has been included: the political order, the public order, the coercive forces and the collective protest. The classification of all these conceptions according to the political affiliation of their authors has allowed the differentiation of three republican speeches on public order: one liberal, one reformist, and another counterrevolutionary. In conclusion, the plurality of meanings assigned to the concept of Public Order by the republican elites, and the differences that some of them contained in comparison with the conceptions of the regime of the Restoration are demonstrated.