O impacto da Revolução Russa no Brasil : a classe operária na imprensa e no parlamento brasileiro (1917-1920).

Abstract

This dissertation has the objective of demonstrating the ways in which the Russian Revolution had an impact on the brazilian society, with reference to two main aspects. The first, demonstrating its resonance on the brazilian working class, analyzing how the Revolution was received in the mentality of the most conscious elements of the working class, and also through its class entities: parties, associations, clubs and trade unions. In this context, the Russian Revolution converged with a moment of intense class struggle in Brazil, marked by a general strike movement, against high costs, in 1917. We have, thus, established that the October Revolution influenced a part of the anarchist and socialist workers movement on the adoption of the strategy of revolutionary strikes, aimed at overthrowing capitalism. The second aspect relates to the first, since the intensification of the native worker’s mobilizations and the dozens of attempts of rebellion, riots and revolutions which were occurring in various parts of the world, served as an alert for part of the brazilian elite which started to defend a Worker’s Legislation, directed at supporting the workforce, but also aimed at defusing the ideas of social revolution coming from Russia. Since then, a great discussion emerged in the Chamber of Deputies about the adoption or rejection of a project called the Labor Code. On the part of its supporters, the rhetoric of the revolutionary danger was used, and also that this was a problem that the liberal democracies of Europe were faced with too. In short, we wish to argue that the external aspect which pressured the approval of part of the Labor Code was the revolution that shook the world, originated on the land of the soviets.