Though underscoring the pivotal role of labor militancy in defining the Revolution, the revisioni... more Though underscoring the pivotal role of labor militancy in defining the Revolution, the revisionists nevertheless tended to pass off Indians as passive actors, asserting that class consciousness emerged in the countryside only once radicalized by the left. This may not be a surprising interpretation given the fact that most of this scholarship was contemporaneous with the "pacto-militar campesino." 15 Regardless, during the latter part of the decade, and well into the next, research by Jorge Dandler, Luis Antezana, and Hugo Romero revealed a long history of rural organization and social mobilization that preceded the Revolution. 16 They emphasized, above all, indigenous political agency, while underscoring the mixed legacy of the Revolution process in terms of achieving lasting social change for indigenous Bolivians. Towards the end of the 1970s, a new wave of revisionist scholarship emerged alongside the radical Indianism of Fausto Reinaga and the ethnic-based political
Consulting new archival sources, this study observes three different, but interrelated, cases of ... more Consulting new archival sources, this study observes three different, but interrelated, cases of the uses of History promoted by the MNR. In first place, the author analyses the nationalist historiographical production considering it as a review of national history that reinterprets and rewrites the past assigning new senses to determined chosen individuals, groups and events. In second place, he states that after April 1951, the MNR leaders sought to praise the new history transforming civic time and space with monuments, murals and national festivities. Finally, the professionalization of the historical discipline is referred stating that the party affirmed that the oligarchy had falsified history and had institutionalized epistemic norms of proof and objectivity, assuring that history create had not only serve the nation, but also the party.
Though underscoring the pivotal role of labor militancy in defining the Revolution, the revisioni... more Though underscoring the pivotal role of labor militancy in defining the Revolution, the revisionists nevertheless tended to pass off Indians as passive actors, asserting that class consciousness emerged in the countryside only once radicalized by the left. This may not be a surprising interpretation given the fact that most of this scholarship was contemporaneous with the "pacto-militar campesino." 15 Regardless, during the latter part of the decade, and well into the next, research by Jorge Dandler, Luis Antezana, and Hugo Romero revealed a long history of rural organization and social mobilization that preceded the Revolution. 16 They emphasized, above all, indigenous political agency, while underscoring the mixed legacy of the Revolution process in terms of achieving lasting social change for indigenous Bolivians. Towards the end of the 1970s, a new wave of revisionist scholarship emerged alongside the radical Indianism of Fausto Reinaga and the ethnic-based political
Consulting new archival sources, this study observes three different, but interrelated, cases of ... more Consulting new archival sources, this study observes three different, but interrelated, cases of the uses of History promoted by the MNR. In first place, the author analyses the nationalist historiographical production considering it as a review of national history that reinterprets and rewrites the past assigning new senses to determined chosen individuals, groups and events. In second place, he states that after April 1951, the MNR leaders sought to praise the new history transforming civic time and space with monuments, murals and national festivities. Finally, the professionalization of the historical discipline is referred stating that the party affirmed that the oligarchy had falsified history and had institutionalized epistemic norms of proof and objectivity, assuring that history create had not only serve the nation, but also the party.
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