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Record Nr.

UNINA9910586628903321

Autore

Petra Adriana

Titolo

Intellectuals and Communist Culture : Itineraries, Problems, and Debates in Post-war Argentina / / by Adriana Petra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

3-030-98562-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 pages)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Disciplina

982

305.552

Soggetti

Political science

World politics

Latin America - History

Political Theory

Political History

Latin American History

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Vanguardists, Reformists, Anti-Fascists -- 2. Intellectuals and Communist Culture in the Second Postwar Era -- 3. Anti-Imperialism and Peronism -- 4. Communists and Peace: Figures and Problems in a Global Movement -- 5. The Communist Decade: Héctor P. Agosti and the Debates of the 1950s -- 6. Gramsci and the New Left: The Morphology of an Intense Reception.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Adriana Petra 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.