We are the children of the revolution: students, social movements, youth and the fall of thw military regime (1977-1985)

Author(s)

Daniel Cantinelli Sevillano

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2010-04-19

Examining board members

Francisco Cabral Alambert Junior; Marcelo Siqueira Ridenti; Eliana Maria de Melo Souza

• Advisor: Francisco Cabral Alambert Junior

Abstract

Using the bibliography and historical documents, I tried to analyze how the movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship reorganized themselves in the second part of the 1970s, especially the Students Movement, the Social Movements and some cultural manifestations of the countrys youth groups in that period. Making a comparison with the same groups in the 1960s, I could conclude that the opposition to the regime, in the 1970s and the 1980s, developed new ways of contestation, especially inside the social movements groups, in which the demands came from the people, not from the leaders anymore. Facing this new reality, the students movement, with its representative entities and leadership, had to join the struggle of the social movements groups, while many part of the Brazilian youth, not pleased with the interference of political groups in their demands, turned themselves to new cultural demonstrations to show their values and desires, being them political or not. (AU)