Tests on the Brazilian Military Ditature under the optics of historians Jacob Gorender and Daniel Aarão Reis

• Autor(a) principal: juhcem, vinicius viana
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Oficina do Historiador
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/33726
• topic: Historiography. Military dictatorship. Armed struggle.; Historiografia; Ditadura militar; Luta armada.

The military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985) meant the break with the democratic experience that had been re-established with the end of the Estado Novo (1937-1945) and Getúlio Vargas’ departure from the presidency of the Republic. Following the precepts of the Escola Superior de Guerra (ESG), the Armed Forces ruled in a way that limited the possibilities of exercising the opposition democratically, whether by censoring the media, revoking political mandates or even closing the National Congress. In addition, violence (torture, murder) was used by repression to defeat the armed struggle. The military dictatorship is, therefore, a complex period that needs the work of historians to be understood. Among the vast academic production on the subject, we point out two historians as important references: Jacob Gorender and Daniel Aarão Reis. In view of this, the present article proposes to analyze some of the historians’ conceptions about the military dictatorship and the armed struggle. The article aims to contribute to the set of historiographical studies on the military dictatorship in Latin America, with emphasis on the Brazilian case.