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Organizações e práticas anticomunistas na Argentina e no Brasil (1945-1966)

2016; Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS); Volume: 42; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15448/1980-864x.2016.1.21822

1980-864X

Ernesto Bohoslavsky,

Youth, Politics, and Society

This paper compares Anti-communist organizations and activities in Argentina and Brazil between 1945 and the rising of the dictatorships in the sixties. It is proposed that existed two different periods in the history of Anti-communism, separated by the impact of Cuban Revolution. The hypothesis here defended is that Anti Communism was much more than a mask used by the ruling class in order to face challenges and threats to its privileged position. Furthermore, Anti-Communism must be better understood as an ideology which was widely spread in Argentinean and Brazilian social sectors and political actors, and that had a great capability to bind them.