Abstract

SOLIZ, Carmen. The evasive modernity: political and intellectual debates on agrarian reform in Bolivia (1935- 1952). Rev Cien Cult [online]. 2012, n.29, pp.23-47. ISSN 2077-3323.

This paper examines the proposals, intellectual debates and political par-ties projects around the question on Agrarian Reform between the Chaco War (1932-1935) and the 1952 National Revolution. Although the term "agrarian reform" became very common and widely used at that time, its meanings were significantly different. This work explores those different and sometimes-ambiguous meanings in which left and nationalist parties attempted to conciliate the principles of private property protected by the Constitution with the increasing peasants and indigenous demands for ac-cess and restitution of their lands; and frame both within their own images of modernity and development.

Keywords : Agrarian reform; Bolivia; Revolution of 1952.

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