Overview
- Overcomes the obedience/dissent dichotomy in understanding the relationship between intellectuals and political parties
- Proposes an innovative approach to Argentine political history and to the relationship between Peronism and communism
- Presents a wealth of rarely considered or previously unavailable historical sources
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Marxism
- communism
- Cultural Militancy
- communist parties
- Anti-fascism
- Argentinian politics
- Latin American politics
- Peronism
- Post-war Argentina
- Gaucho
- Cultural Activism
- Héctor P. Agosti
- Socialism
- Neo-Marxism
- New Left
- Left party
- Fascism
- Revolution
- Reformism
- Gramsci
- Intellectuals
- Socialist Realism
- World Peace Council
- Russian Revolution
- Cold War
About this book
This book investigates a central chapter in the history of 20th century intellectualism: the commitment to the communist ideal and the Soviet Union. Focusing on Argentina, whose communist party was among the most important in Latin America, Petra engages with the current literature on Western communism in order to conduct an exhaustive study of the intellectuals, cultural organizations, publications, and debates within Argentine communism in the decades following World War II. Based on rigorous archival research from diverse sources, Petra’s book distances itself from existing teleological visions and institutional approaches to the communist world, offering instead a complex framework in which multiple contexts, scales, and actors frame the larger problem: the intellectual commitment to a political project that brooked no dissent. Intellectuals and Communist Culture also addresses the emergence of Peronism, a crucial movement in Argentine political life to this very day, thus offering an important chapter on Latin American political and intellectual history and an invaluable contribution to the global history of the international communist movement.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Adriana Petra holds a PhD in History, is Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina and Professor at the School of Humanities of the National University of San Martín, Argentina where she also heads the Centre for Latin American Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intellectuals and Communist Culture
Book Subtitle: Itineraries, Problems, and Debates in Post-war Argentina
Authors: Adriana Petra
Translated by: Rebecca Wolpin
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98562-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98561-5Published: 17 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98564-6Published: 18 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98562-2Published: 16 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 456
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Political History, Latin American History, Latin American Politics