Distinctive Features of the Development of Capitalism in Argentina

Abstract

The end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century in Argentina remains one of the periods least studied by Soviet historians. This is true despite the fact that knowledge of the period is very important for obtaining a true idea of the characteristic features of capitalist development in that country, and of the origins of the persistent and chronic crisis in Argentina's socioeconomic and political structures. The period from the 1870s to World War I was a critical watershed in the establishment of capitalism in Argentina, a period that was in many respects predetermined by the country's preceding development.