O acervo do Partido Revolucionário Comunista (PRC) em contexto

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the trajectory of the Revolutionary Party Communist Party (PRC), in relation to the crisis of Brazilian communism in the 1960s, and the crisis of real socialism. This work is also dedicated to understanding the process of constitution of the PRC's documentary fund, contextualizing its donation to the Historical Archive Regional (AHR) and making notes, in order to understand some of the interventions carried out, facilitating their organization, archiving and access to the public. The documents were mostly produced throughout the 1980s, final period of the military dictatorship in Brazil and the acceleration of the crisis of real socialism in international context. Defined by the custodian of the collection as a party of Marxism heterodox, the PRC raised concerns regarding issues structuring the revolution Brazilian society, such as the notions of Leninist praxis and democratic centralism, the role of revolutionary vanguard and the relationship between the military and political aspects of the revolution; investment supported by the intellectual vocation that constitutes a particularly characteristic remarkable since the beginning of his career.