In October 1934 the northern Spanish region of Asturias was the scene of one of the most important outbursts of revolution in Europe. Thousands of leftwing militants took up arms and fought the Spanish army in the streets of Oviedo while in the rearguard committees proclaimed a revolutionary dawn. After two weeks however the insurrection was crushed and the ensuing widespread repression was central to the polarization and fragmentation of Spanish politics prior to the Civil War 193639. Weaving together a range of everyday disputes and arenas of conflict from tenant activism to strikes boycotts to political violence Unite Proletarian Brothers reveals how local cleavages and conflicts operating within the context of the Spanish Second Republic 193136 and interwar Europe explain the origins development and consequences of the Asturian October. The book sheds new light on the longdebated process of radicalization during the Second Republic as well as the wider questions of protest revolutionary politics and social and political conflict in interwar Europe. show more