From Revolution to Power in Brazil: How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership (Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development)

800 Pages·2019·27.361 MB·English

by  Kenneth P. Serbin

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FROM
REVOLUTION TO
POWER IN BRAZIL
How Radical Leftists
Embraced Capitalism and
Struggled with Leadership
KENNETH P. SERBIN
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
Copyright © 2019 by University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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Published in the United States of America
Cover images: shutterstock // Front cover images: (top) Police in Sao Paulo detain
a man during a street protest in So Paulo, October 1968. Iconographi (bottom)
In 1971, President Médici visited the National Steel Factory in Volta Redonda, an
area of national security and hotbed of political activism. Iconographia. // Back
cover image: Former National Liberating Action militant Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi,
Minister of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights (left), with President Luiz Ind-
cio Lula da Silva, August 2006. Photo by Ricardo Stuckert.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Title: From revolution to power in Brazil : how radical leftists embraced capitalism
and struggled with leadership / Kenneth P. Serbin.
Description: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019] | Series:

Helen Kellogg Institute series on democracy and development | Includes biblio-
graphical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2019017145 (print) | LCCN
2019020350 (ebook) | ISBN 9780268105884 (pdf) | ISBN 9780268105877 (epub)
[ISBN 9780268105853 (hardback: alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Brazil—Politics and government—1964-1985. | Brazil—Politics
and _government—1985-2002. | Adc#ao Libertadora Nacional (Organization :
Brazil) History. | Revolutionaries—Brazil—History—2oth century. | Military
government—BrazilHistory—20th century. ~—|_—_Terrorism—Brazil—
His-tory—2oth century. | Capitalism—Brazil—History—2oth century. | Brazil—
Economic conditions—1985-
Classification: LCC F2538.25 (ebook) | LCC F2538.25.S465 2019 (print) | DDC
981.06—de23
LC record available at https://lccn loc. gows/2019017145
‘20 This book is printed on acid-free paper.