Skiers in the Service of the Second Republic: The Alpine Battalion during the Spanish Civil War
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/60392DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2023.2177277
ISSN: 0952-3367
Date
2023-03-18Funders
Ministerio de Universidades, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid RD 289/2021 / European Union (NextGenerationEU)
Bibliographic citation
The International
Journal of the History of Sport, 2023, v. 40, n. 2-3, p. 204-224
Keywords
Alpine Battalion
Spanish Civil War
Skiers
Workers sport
Second Republic
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Abstract
During the Second Republic proletarian sport developed in Castile, with a prominent socialist and communist influence and a clear international scope. This working-class sport brought physical activity closer to the popular sectors through the first worker sports associations such as Salud y Cultura (S&C) that gave way to various athletic, alpine or football associations. The use of mountains by university circles for sporting, educational or leisure purposes favored its expansion to other social sectors, as well as the diversification of its practice. Although the Spanish Civil War (SCW) marked the end of the previous years? expansion of sports in Spain, leftist social and political organizations understood the SCW as a class-based conflict with sport as a distinctive key element of the working-class militias. They managed to create militiamen battalions, some of them closely related to sport. Around the Guadarrama range (Madrid) two mountain battalions appeared at the end of summer 1936: the Youth Alpine Battalion (socialist) and the Alpine Battalion of the 5th Regiment (communist). Both merged in December 1936 and operated under the name of Alpine Battalion until the end of the war. Despite political tensions, it was a very united battalion with sport, culture and political analysis being the hallmarks of the Alpine Battalion, the epitome of leftist politically heterogeneous sporting battalions during the SCW.
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