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(January 2007)| |Part of the Spanish Civil War| |Part of the
Politics series on| The Spanish Revolution was a workers' social
revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil
War in 1936 and resulted in the widespread implementation of
anarchist and more broadly libertarian socialist organizational
principles throughout various portions of the country for two to
three years, primarily Catalonia, Aragon, Andalusia, and parts
of the Levante. Much of Spain's economy was put under worker
control; in anarchist strongholds like Catalonia, the figure was
as high as 75%, but lower in areas with heavy Communist Party
influence, as the Soviet Union-controlled party actively tried
to crush attempts at worker empowerment. Factories were run
through worker committees, agrarian areas became collectivised
and run as libertarian communes. Even places like hotels, barber
shops, and restaurants were collectivized and managed by their
workers. Sam Dolgoff