People of the Revolution and the USSR
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Background: Spain
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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GlossarySpanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
- Francisco Largo Caballero Francisco Largo Caballero The UGT worker-leader they called the Spanish Lenin, a prime minister broken between revolution and war
- Julián Besteiro Julián Besteiro PSOE right-wing leader, Speaker of the Cortes; joined Casado's coup, refused exile, and died in Franco's prison
- Andreu Nin Andreu Nin The Marxist who linked the Russian and Spanish revolutions, founder of the POUM
- Juan Negrín Juan Negrín The physiologist trained in Leipzig who sent the Republic's gold to Moscow and chose to fight to the end as its last prime minister