INVESTIGADORES
GALVAN Maria Valeria
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Defending the revolution abroad: the actions of the Soviet Repatriation Committee in Argentina and the issue of national identity (1955-1963)
Autor/es:
MARÍA VALERIA GALVÁN
Lugar:
Budapest
Reunión:
Congreso; 5the European Congress on World and Global History; 2017
Institución organizadora:
European Network in Universal and Global History
Resumen:
Repatriations to the USSR from Argentina were a success in the short term. Although the émigrés had been very well integrated into Argentine society, their main and regular spaces of sociability were still linked to their countries of origin. For this reason, émigré clubs, mutual aid societies, and associations played a crucial role in mobilizing Argentine citizens on behalf of a nation located in their parents? places of birth. Besides banal associations with family values, the appeal to defend and work for a nation that was still being builtsought not only to undermine the Argentine identity of these émigrés, but also as a response to strong anticommunist sentiment within the Eastern European émigrés living in the West to politically indoctrinate and recruit them. All of these, influenced the personal emotions and political commitments of the repatriates and left them vulnerable for the Soviet identity shaping process to follow its course.