The Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution: Commemorating the 7th November in the Communist Party of Chile, 1935—1970

Abstract

This article analyzes the ways in which the Communist Party of Chile commemorated November 7 between the years 1935—1970, under the understanding that the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution became one of the central axes of the communist political culture, since it had relationship both with the assessment of the October Revolution and its ideological impact as well as with the process of appropriation and dissemination of Sovietism in the Chilean communist militancy. Indeed, the commemorations of the Bolshevik Revolution played a fundamental role in the Chilean communist world, whose press organs were responsible for disseminating the debates and discussions generated by national and foreign communist leaders around the place that this event should occupy during the different historical processes that marked those decades, especially the anti-fascist struggle, the Popular Front, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and the Cold War.