Las lecturas comunistas del pasado nacional en una coyuntura incierta (1955- 1966). Herencias, ajustes y novedades

Abstract

After the military coup that overthrew peronism in 1955, a period of intense and violent political dispute started. Soon after, different actors made of the images of the past, including the far past, a scenery and a tool of that dispute. As an example, sectors of the hardest antiperonism related the present with the Mayo Revolution and the battle of Caseros; peronists created a close and in many aspects novel relation with the revisionisms that tended to prefer other heroes: San Martín and Rosas became the most habitual names of that tradition. In this article, located in the intersection of cultural history, political history and history of historiography, I will examine how the Communist Party intervened in that quarrel for the past by analyzing some of the works produced by its intellectuals and some of the interpretations published by organization press media.