Newspapers of the PCB and representation in Brazil of the Soviet role in World War II

Abstract

By using discourse analysis techniques on the journalistic text, the article addresses the impact on Brazil of the Soviet war film about World War II. The contact with this film was given in various ways. Members and supporters of the Brazilian Communist Party held access to daily or weekly newspapers, among its subjects, conferred some prominence to the Soviet cinema. Newspapers replicated information issued by news agencies in Moscow, or producing your own material. The films competed (and sometimes won) in international festivals. On some occasions, they were officially displayed in their own territory (during the years in which they sought to resume diplomatic and trade relations between Brazil and the USSR). These newspapers allow grasp both the vision of the militants on the Second War and the variations of this vision, caused by subsequent cracks in the old party monolith. What will leave marks on the synopses of the films or in columns devoted to films and their production, published in the newspaper Novos Rumos and Voz operária, between 1949 and 1964.

Keywords: Representation, mediation, PCB, World War II.