Trajetória partidária e cultura política dos comunistas em Cuba entre as décadas de 1920 e 1960

Abstract

In this thesis, we analyze the trajectory and political culture of Communists affiliated to the Communist Party of Cuba, first, and then to the Popular Socialist Party, during the 1920s and 1960s. We emphasize the values, ideology, mythologies and representations that they were created, spread and inculcated by the communists over four decades. We also analyze the transformations of the political project, the negotiations and disputes waged by the Party, the life of communists in hiding during the dictatorships of Gerardo Machado (in the 1930s) and Fulgencio Batista (in the 1950s), the role of the PSP in the Second Republic (1940-1952) and in the early years of the Cuban Revolution. Thus, we investigate the political relations established by the communists with island political groups and with the Soviet Union over the selected decades. We assess the reasons for the dissolution of the PSP and the role of former Party members in the construction of socialism in Cuba in the 1960s. Cuban politicians, documents from the Party congresses and authoritative texts by the PCC/PSP leaders. We dialogue with the theoretical-methodological references of political cultures, the press as a political actor and discourse analysis.