Ecos do outubro vermelho em Sergipe : a União Soviética nas páginas do jornal Voz do Operário (1920-1928)

Abstract

This work analyzes the idealized image of the Soviet Union as presented in the pages of the Sergipe newspaper Voz do Operário. This publication was created in 1920 by the Sergipe Workers' Center and became the official organ of the labor press in the state of Sergipe during the final years of the First Republic. Its pages contain many articles and news pieces referring to the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union, and promoting the unity of the working class in the state, along with a repudiation of the bourgeoisie as tools for the co-optation of workers in the state. In investigating this material, the focus was on the period corresponding to the emergence and the eclipse of the references found in the newspaper, specifically between the years 1920 and 1928. A research process was conducted that began with a survey of sources at the Epiphanio Dória Public Library, followed by a review of the literature on the Russian Revolution and the labor movement in Sergipe. To this end, the New Political History was employed, particularly the assumptions of historian Serge Berstein, to interpret the journalistic source. Based on this itinerary, this work argues that the dissemination of articles about the USSR and the Russian revolutionary process supported a political project led by the Sergipe Workers' Center aimed at bringing about changes and improvements for workers through the path of communism. In this sense, the newspaper worked to build a communist political culture, utilizing the romanticized representation of the Soviet Union to gain the sympathy of workers in the state of Sergipe. The initial hypothesis is to interpret the publication of articles on this theme in the newspaper as indications of a political project seeking changes and improvements for the lives and work of workers. To achieve this objective, a communist political culture was constructed, using the romanticized representation of the Soviet Union to win the sympathy of the workers in the state of Sergipe.