Manuel Azaña
prime minister of Spain, president of Spain (1880-1940)
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Manuel Azaña was a Spanish political leader who served as both prime minister and president of Spain during a turbulent period in the country's history, living from 1880 to 1940. He matters because he played a central role in Spain's transition away from monarchy and represented the democratic and reformist forces that clashed with more conservative and authoritarian movements in early 20th-century Spain.
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- 1880-01-10
- Died
- 1940-11-04
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- Words for an End of the World — Self - Politician (archive footage)2020
- Caudillo — Himself (archive footage)1977
- Songs for After a War — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1976
- The Spanish Earth — Himself (President of Spain)1937
- Spain 1936 — Archive footage1937
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Manuel Azaña Díaz ( Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnwel aˈθaɲa]; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939). He has been called the father of the Republic and was the most prominent leader of the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939.
A published author in the 1910s, he stood out in the pro-Allies camp during World War I. He was sharply critical towards the Generation of '98, the reimagination of the Spanish Middle Ages, Imperial Spain and the 20th century yearnings for a praetorian refurbishment of the country. Azaña followed instead the examples of the French Enlightenment and the Third French Republic, and took a political quest for democracy in the 1920s while defending the notion of homeland as the "democratic equality of all citizens towards the law" that made him embrace republicanism.
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1880 births1940 deaths20th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights20th-century Spanish male writersComplutense University of Madrid alumniExiled Spanish politiciansExiles of the Spanish Civil War in FranceGovernment ministers during the Second Spanish RepublicLeaders of political parties in SpainLeaders ousted by a coupMembers of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic