Resignation of General Primo de Rivera
Poet involved
What happened
On January 28, 1930, Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera was forced to resign by King Alfonso XIII amid growing economic hardship from the Great Depression and widespread political opposition. The resignation came just one week before a damning report was to be published directly implicating the king in the disastrous Rif War outcome. Primo de Rivera's departure ended his seven-year dictatorship and left Spain in a political vacuum, accelerating the momentum toward republicanism. He died less than two months later in Paris, a broken man.
Literary impact
The fall of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship opened a period of intense political and cultural ferment that would define the generation of poets known as the Generation of '27. Poets like Federico García Lorca and Rafael Alberti, who had flourished under the dictatorship's relative cultural tolerance, now faced a rapidly radicalizing public sphere where poetry became increasingly politicized.
Source: Britannica
