The influence of the Russian Revolution in the struggle for class political rights and the beginnings of the Brazilian Section of the Communist International, 1925-1930

Abstract

This article examines the actions of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) in its early days, in the second half of the 1920’s, dealing in particular with the demands made by the Communists in the first elections in which they took part. This approach, at the same time, allowed the Brazilian communists to break with their anarchist origins and to assess the set of proposals presented to the Brazilian working class, which, in turn, marked, on the one hand, the points of view of the Russian Revolution and, on the other, its differentiation with the retrograde and late Brazilian bourgeoisie.