Los diputados de la Segunda República: a propósito de una obra reciente de Octavio Ruiz-Manjón

Abstract

Going beyond the methodological line that has been cultivated in recent years, such as addressing the most recent prosopography, in addition to continuing with the classic biographies of relevant characters, a recent work by Octavio Ruiz-Manjón reconstructs a new reality, the Spanish National Congress and its protagonists. It also provides us with the description of a remarkable political organization essential in a democracy and makes us understand the complexity of the characteristics of such an important institution. This work includes, on the one hand, the fundamental personal data of each one of the 1,007 members of congress who acted in the Cortes of the Second Republic, as a consequence of the general elections that were held during the years 1931, 1933 and 1936 and, on the other, the general vision and most appreciable characteristics of the state body in which the legislative power emanating from those elections resided.