In Tiberii Morbum. The last Spanish republicans and their ideas of ‘transition’ and ‘reconciliation’ during the Spanish transition to democracy

Abstract

The historiography about Spanish republicanism during the Transition to Democracy has had few contributions, mainly based on the problems of exile after the Spanish Civil War. The aim of this paper is focused on the ideas of "transition" and "reconciliation" developed by the last representatives of 'historical' republicanism, gathered in the institutions of the Government of the Spanish Republic in the Exile and in the political party of Acción Republicana Democrática Española, heir of Manuel Azaña’s Izquierda Republicana and the Unión Republicana founded by Diego Martínez Barrio and Félix Gordón Ordás.