Currents of transmission between the PCB and the Communist International: Brazilian communist intellectuals and the international communist movement (1922-1935)
PCB; Communist Intellectuals; Communist International
The Communist Party of Brazil was created in 1922, in Rio de Janeiro. Its organization derived from the union of nine communists who sought acceptance as members of the Communist International in Moscow. This did not happen immediately. The diversity of its members who dialogued with anarchism and freemasonry made acceptance by the Comintern impossible. Only in 1924 could they join the internationalist ranks. The clandestine nature of the party's history made it difficult to maintain and organize its members. The succession of authoritarian governments prevented the circulation of periodicals and removed the communists' right to vote and protest. Astrojildo Pereira and Octávio Brandão were two communist intellectuals, known for fusing their life story with that of the PCB. Their works, letters and reports are records of the history of communism in Brazil. This study aims to understand the actions of the communist intellectuals, through the communications exchanged between the Communist International and the PCB, making it possible to analyze the political processes, and to verify the theses of centralization in Moscow and the appeasement of party members, in the period from 1922 to 1935.