The impact of the Cuban revolution on the brazilian communist organizations (1959-1974)

Author(s)

Jean Rodrigues Sales

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2005-12-20

Examining board members

Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha; Marcelo Siqueira Ridenti; Michael McDonald Hall; Pierre Guenancia

• Advisor: Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha; Serge Wolikow

Abstract

The main objective of the present thesis is to analyze the relationships between the Brazilian communist leftist movements and the Cuban revolution between 1959 and 1974. We aim at understanding how far that revolution influenced the ideological debate of the Brazilian communists and the consequences for its theoretical formulations and the political practice. The general conclusion is that the Cuban revolutionary process was mainly present in the debate on the definition of the armed resistance to the military dictatorship and the adoption of socialism by a part of that leftist movement. It was further important during the crisis that took place after 1964 among those organizations that had existed before the military coup, which then fragmented and gave birth to several groups of the Revolutionary Left (AU)