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Intellectuals and Communist Culture: Itineraries, Problems, and Debates in Post-War Argentina

Intellectuals and Communist Culture: Itineraries, Problems, and Debates in Post-War Argentina

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Series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

General Latin American HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 303098561X
ISBN13: 9783030985615
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 17 2022
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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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