The red year

New, revised and expanded edition of the book that addresses the Russian Revolution and its repercussions in Brazil

Written in exile by Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira and originally published in 1967, O ano vermelho returns in a revised and expanded edition, with new documents and reflections, on the centenary of the October Revolution and Brazil's first general strike.

The first edition introduced Brazilians to the events that would forever place the labor (or social) issue at the center of the country's political and historical agenda. It was the result of the emergence of capitalist relations beginning in the second half of the 20th century, the Abolition of Slavery, the massive immigration, and the economic booms that enabled the country's first industrialization, especially during the First World War.

This “masterful” book – in the words of Professor Oswaldo Coggiola – presents the significance of Brazil’s red year for the country’s incorporation into world political history and the way in which this struggle would come to condition subsequent political changes (tenentismo, the 1930 Revolution, “Varguism” and the incorporation of the union and labor and social legislation into the Brazilian political structure).