No exílio, contra o isolamento: Intelectuais comunistas, frentismo e questão democrática nos anos 1970

Abstract

This article discusses the new intellectual leadership emerged in the Brazilian Communist Party from the experience of exile in the 1970s. Many of the Brazilian intellectuals communists in Western Europe sustain a dialogue with the guidelines of Eurocommunism, with "national-popular question" and the resistance against the military regime implanted in 1964. The "elaborations of exile" of the PCB, as this process became known, were important to reinforce the strategy of front of democratic resistance to dictatorship, with implications in the political and cultural spheres. Paradoxically, the front strategy did not survive the context of "abertura", and the consequent return of the exiles to Brazil.