Abstract

MATTHEW GILDNER, R.. History as National Liberation: Building a useful past for the post-revolutionary Bolivia. Rev Cien Cult [online]. 2012, n.29, pp.103-122. ISSN 2077-3323.

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 con-sidering 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 professionaliza-tion 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.

Keywords : Bolivia; 1952 Revolution; Nationalist history; Cultural politics; historical discipline.

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