The Spanish Civil War, in an intellectual sense, was the great political event of the Twentieth Century. Representatives of every possible political and social position produced by the modern world were all present and active contestants in the conflict raging from 1936-1939. So were the supporters of all groups that opposed them as well. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro offers a detailed discussion of this microcosm of modern history, involving monarchists of various kinds, Catholics, Falangists, nationalists, Basque and Catalan separatists, liberals, masons, democrats, socialists, anarchists, Marxists, Trotskyites, and Nihilists. Taken from: The Church of Eugenio Pacelli - 2000 VonHildebrand Institute