Until the Storm Passes
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Until the Storm Passes

Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

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eBook - ePub

Until the Storm Passes

Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

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Until the Storm Passes reveals how Brazil's 1964–1985 military dictatorship contributed to its own demise by alienating the civilian political elites who initially helped bring it to power. Based on exhaustive research conducted in nearly twenty archives in five countries, as well as on oral histories with surviving politicians from the period, this book tells the surprising story of how the alternatingly self-interested and heroic resistance of the political class contributed decisively to Brazil's democratization. As they gradually turned against military rule, politicians began to embrace a political role for the masses that most of them would never have accepted in 1964, thus setting the stage for the breathtaking expansion of democracy that Brazil enjoyed over the next three decades.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520388352
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520388369
Topic
History
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Media Files
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: A Nation for All or a Few? The Political Class, the People, and the Rise and Fall of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
  10. 1. “The Blood of the Youth Is Flowing”: The Political Class and Its Children Take on the Military in 1968
  11. 2. “The Funeral of Democracy”: The Showdown with the Military and Institutional Act No. 5
  12. 3. “The Political Class Has Learned Nothing”: The Military Punishes the Political Class
  13. 4. “Sheltered under the Tree”: The Everyday Practice of Politics under Dictatorial Rule
  14. 5. “We Aren’t a Flock of Little Sheep”: The Political Class and the Limits of Liberalization
  15. 6. “We Cannot Think about Democracy the Way We Used To”: The ABC Strikes and the Challenge of Popular Mobilization
  16. 7. “I Want to Vote for President”: Diretas Já, the Political Class, and the Demise of the Military Dictatorship
  17. Conclusion: Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity for Brazil? The Political Class under Dictatorship and Democracy
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography

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