80 years ago the cities of eastern and central Spain lost a war against the military supported by the rest of the (largely rural) country; in the end, the city people with their enlightened communism couldn’t convince people to grow their own food and they were starved out.
Crazy time in history where Hitler got a chance to practice his coming war and Stalin his interventionist foreign policy.
My favorite character that emerged from that fray was Orwell who has outlasted all the military leaders.