2024-06-102024-06-10https://noesis.uis.edu.co/handle/20.500.14071/42703It was the intention of the socialist-republican coalition, when it came to power in 1931, to solve a series of pivotal issues that had never found solutions since the inception of liberalism a century earlier: implementing a genuine democracy, structuring the State in order to take into account the nationalist aspirations of certain regions, curtailing the financial, ideological and educational powers of the Church; reducing social injustice while granting rights to the working classes; tackling the unequal distribution of the landed property; and lastly establishing civilian control over the army. This paper shows that, far from being accepted and supported by a significant majority of public opinion, the measures that were taken had the opposite effect of exacerbating the rifts and hatreds that, for decades already, had plagued Spanish society.La coalición republicano-socialista que accede al poder en 1931 emprende resolver una serie de problemas acuciantes nunca solucionados desde los albores del liberalismo, un siglo atrás: instaurar una verdadera democracia; estructurar el Estado teniendo en cuenta las aspiraciones nacionalistas de algunas regiones; reducir el poder financiero, ideológico y educativo de la Iglesia; mitigar las injusticias sociales y conceder unos derechos a los trabajadores; disminuir el desigual reparto de la riqueza rústica; supeditar por fin el Ejército al poder civil. Este artículo muestra que, lejos de haber sido aceptadas y apoyadas por una mayoría significativa de la opinión pública, aquellas reformas exacerbaron al contrario las divisiones y los odios ya existentes en la sociedad española desde hacía decenios.application/pdfSegunda República españolaguerra civil españolareformismo1931- 1936Second Spanish Republicspanish civil warreformism1931-1936info:eu-repo/semantics/article