James G. Hershberg
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781683401698
- eISBN:
- 9781683402350
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683401698.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the international aspects of the struggle on the Brazilian Revolutionary Left in the early 1960s, against the backdrops of domestic political instability, the Cold War, and the ...
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This chapter examines the international aspects of the struggle on the Brazilian Revolutionary Left in the early 1960s, against the backdrops of domestic political instability, the Cold War, and the Sino-Soviet split. It explores two rivalries on the Brazilian Revolutionary Left, both pitting the established, pro-Moscow Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and its venerable leader, Luis Carlos Prestes—who supported Nikita Khrushchev’s line of struggling for power through peaceful, political means—against rivals who favored armed revolution: a dissident breakaway faction, the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), which embraced Beijing’s side in the Sino-Soviet spat and sought Mao Zedong’s backing against Prestes and the PCB; and the Peasant Leagues in Brazil’s northeast, whose leader, Francisco Julião, admired the Cuban Revolution. In early 1963, both Prestes and Julião visited Havana to court Fidel Castro; and rival PCB and PCdoB delegations visited China, seeking Mao’s endorsement. The dispute over Brazil’s correct revolutionary path mirrored the larger rift in the communist world. Drawing on an array of archival sources—Brazilian, U.S., Chinese, Russian, British, Czech, Hungarian, East German, Polish, and more—the chapter reveals a previously unknown dimension of the intersection, and interaction, between internal Brazilian and global revolutionary left.Less
This chapter examines the international aspects of the struggle on the Brazilian Revolutionary Left in the early 1960s, against the backdrops of domestic political instability, the Cold War, and the Sino-Soviet split. It explores two rivalries on the Brazilian Revolutionary Left, both pitting the established, pro-Moscow Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and its venerable leader, Luis Carlos Prestes—who supported Nikita Khrushchev’s line of struggling for power through peaceful, political means—against rivals who favored armed revolution: a dissident breakaway faction, the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), which embraced Beijing’s side in the Sino-Soviet spat and sought Mao Zedong’s backing against Prestes and the PCB; and the Peasant Leagues in Brazil’s northeast, whose leader, Francisco Julião, admired the Cuban Revolution. In early 1963, both Prestes and Julião visited Havana to court Fidel Castro; and rival PCB and PCdoB delegations visited China, seeking Mao’s endorsement. The dispute over Brazil’s correct revolutionary path mirrored the larger rift in the communist world. Drawing on an array of archival sources—Brazilian, U.S., Chinese, Russian, British, Czech, Hungarian, East German, Polish, and more—the chapter reveals a previously unknown dimension of the intersection, and interaction, between internal Brazilian and global revolutionary left.
Pablo Lapegna
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190215132
- eISBN:
- 9780190215170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190215132.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Chapter 2 zooms in on the province of Formosa, in the north of Argentina, to reconstruct the history of peasant organizations (particularly the Peasant Leagues), the local impacts of ...
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Chapter 2 zooms in on the province of Formosa, in the north of Argentina, to reconstruct the history of peasant organizations (particularly the Peasant Leagues), the local impacts of neoliberalization, and the pervasiveness of patronage politics. Drawing from the life histories of two peasant women, the chapter reviews the economy and politics of the province as seen from the points of view of peasants and their organizations, introducing the rural communities analysed in the ensuing chapters. While chapters 3, 4, and 5 delve into events of contentious mobilization and processes of demobilization throughout a decade (2003–2013), this chapter serves as a broader historical canvas to situate that decade within a longer history of peasant struggles and cotton production in northern Argentina, covering the period between the 1970s (including the military government) and the 2000s.Less
Chapter 2 zooms in on the province of Formosa, in the north of Argentina, to reconstruct the history of peasant organizations (particularly the Peasant Leagues), the local impacts of neoliberalization, and the pervasiveness of patronage politics. Drawing from the life histories of two peasant women, the chapter reviews the economy and politics of the province as seen from the points of view of peasants and their organizations, introducing the rural communities analysed in the ensuing chapters. While chapters 3, 4, and 5 delve into events of contentious mobilization and processes of demobilization throughout a decade (2003–2013), this chapter serves as a broader historical canvas to situate that decade within a longer history of peasant struggles and cotton production in northern Argentina, covering the period between the 1970s (including the military government) and the 2000s.
