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Brazil and the Soviet Challenge, 1917-1947 (Paperback)
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Between 1918 and 1961, Brazil and the USSR maintained formal
diplomatic ties for only thirty-one months, at the end of World War
II. Yet, despite the official distance, the USSR is the only
external actor whose behavior, real or imagined, influenced the
structure of the Brazilian state in the twentieth century. In
Brazil and the Soviet Challenge, 1917-1947, Stanley Hilton provides
the first analysis in any language of Brazilian policy toward the
Soviet Union during this period. Drawing on American, British, and
German diplomatic archives and unprecedented access to official and
private Brazilian records, Hilton elucidates the connection between
the Brazilian elite's perception of a communist threat and the
creation of the authoritarian Estado Novo (1937-1945), the
forerunner of the post-1964 national security state. He shows how
the 1935 communist revolt, prepared by Comintern agents, was a
pivotal event in Brazilian history, making prophets of conservative
alarmists and generating irresistible pressure for an authoritarian
government to contain the Soviet threat. He details the Brazilian
government's secret cooperation with the Gestapo during the 1930s
and its concomitant efforts to forge an anti-Soviet front in the
Southern Cone. And he uncovers an unexplored aspect of Brazil's
national security policy, namely, the attempt to build
counterintelligence capabilities not only within Brazil but also in
neighboring countries. While the history of the Brazilian communist
movement has been extensively studied, this is the first work to
explore how images of the Soviet Union and its policies influenced
the Brazilian foreign policy elite. It will be important reading
for all students of twentieth-century political history.
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