War and revolution. Forms of intellectual commitment and paths in forming of a communist cultural space in Argentina (1920 - 1935)

Abstract

This article explores the links between Argentinean intellectuals and communism in the decades of 1920 and 1930. Through the analysis of some magazines and the profiles of the intellectuals who encouraged them, this work examines the local echoes of the Russian Revolution and World War I, associated with the politicization of college students after the Reformation of 1918, which defined the first models of intellectual commitment with communism, in a context of internationalization of forms of public intervention of intellectuals. From the libertarian optimism and moral solidarity of the early '20s, through the attempts to create an avant-garde labor art, and the commitment to defend the liberal culture during the fascist period, this article focuses on the complex relationship between culture and politics in communist domain considering the communist party characteristics and the Argentinean intellectual field in the history.