Apostles of the People. The character of the revolutionary leadership in Colombia, 1924-1930

This paper analyzes the characteristics and nature of leadership within the Socialist Revolutionary Party, important political experience of the second half of the 1920s. It shows the factors that enabled these revolutionary leadership to take hold within, the social origins of these activists, the...

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Main Author: Isidro Vanegas Useche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín 2013-07-01
Series:Historia y Sociedad
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/hisysoc/article/view/41916/43637
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Summary:This paper analyzes the characteristics and nature of leadership within the Socialist Revolutionary Party, important political experience of the second half of the 1920s. It shows the factors that enabled these revolutionary leadership to take hold within, the social origins of these activists, the kind of prominence that exercised within the party and related social organizations. It is, in short, an analysis of how the current political leaders that claimed to represent the people, of which emerges a diverse group of activists determined to advance the social revolution, imbued with a provision to martyrdom and an inclination violence by a passenger who gave the world popular approach, rather inclined to reject all forms of political violence
ISSN:0121-8417
2357-4720