Reis Filho, Daniel Aarão. Luís Carlos Prestes: um revolucionário entre dois mundos

Abstract

During his long life he participated in significant moments in Brazilian history, and of the left in particular. In the 1920s, he was one of the leaders of the movement which spread throughout Brazil in opposition to the administration of Artur Bernardes and to way the republication regime was organized. In the 1930s he spent a long period in the Soviet Union, where he definitely adhered to communism and prepared the way to joining the Brazilian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Brasileiro-PCB). After returning to Brazil he participated in the so-called Intentona Comunista (Communist Uprising) in 1935. After the defeat of this he was imprisoned for various years, until he reemerged in the second half of the 1940, leading a reinvigorated PCB after the end of the war. During the Dutra administration, he faced a new period of persecutions after the revocation of the PCB's official registration, once again having to go underground. From the end of the 1950s until the 1964 coup he, along with the PCB, experienced the intense years of the Juscelino Kubitschek and Jânio Quadros administrations, the resignation of the latter, and the troubled assumption of João Goulart. Between 1961 and 1964, he was present during the debates of the Grassroots Reforms (Reformas de Base) and other development projects for the country. After the coup, he spent a new and long exile in the Soviet Union, from where he accompanied and was a protagonist in the organic crisis of the PCB. Returning to Brazil in 1979, until his death he directly reis Filho, daniel Aarão Luís Carlos Prestes: um revolucionário entre dois mundos [Luís Carlos Prestes: a revolutionary between two worlds]