ABSTRACT
The article analyses how Catalan separatism used the murder of the Russian Governor-General of Finland, Nikolai Bobrikov, in 1906 to establish a parallel between Finland/Catalonia and the Russian Empire/Spain, to transfer through a play an imaginary of combat against the Civil Government of Barcelona. The use of this episode of Finnish history through a play was part of Catalan nationalism’s continued will to find external models and to use relevant moments of other European nationalist movements to explain itself.
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1 Some examples: El Diluvio, June 18, 1904; El Diluvio, June 29, 1904; La Publicidad, June 17, 1904; La Publicidad, June 18, 1904; La Ilustració catalana, June 26, 1904; La Veu de Catalunya, June 17, 1904.
2 As an examples: La Veu de Catalunya, March 7, 1899; Ibid., March 27, 1899; Ibid., May 25, 1902; Diari de Catalunya, July 10, 1900; Ibid., August 5, 1900, Ibid., September 10, 1900.
3 The author has not been able to find the message in the Finnish press.
4 Joventut, April 17, 1905; El Poble Català, December 20, 1909; Renaixement, September 19, 1915; El Diluvio, February 23, 1918.
5 La Vanguardia, September 11, 1913; La Vanguardia, September 11, 1921.
6 La Vanguardia, November 24, 1917.
7 La Veu de Catalunya, November 24, 1906.
8 La Vanguardia, September 15, 1906; La Veu de Catalunya, November 24, 1906; La Escena Catalana, November 24, 1906.
9 L’Esquella de la Torratxa, November 30, 1906.
10 La Vanguardia, October 31, 1912.
11 La Vanguardia, February 25, 1916; Teatre Català, March 18, 1916.
12 El Imparcial, December 23, 1918.
13 ABC, January 14, 1919.
14 La Vanguardia, January 30, 1919; El Imparcial, February 7, 1919.
15 La Veu de Catalunya, August 10, 1920.
16 La Vanguardia, January 7, 1921; La Vanguardia, January 13, 1921.
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Joan Esculies
Joan Esculies (Manresa, Catalonia, 1976) Professor at University de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya. PhD in History by Universitat Pompeu Fabra and MSc in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict by Birkbeck College of the University of London. He is a specialist in Catalan Nationalism and has published articles on the origins, evolution, organizations and protagonists of Catalan separatism in the first half of the 20th century. More information: www.joanesculies.com.