David M. K. Sheinin, Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War. Sebastián Carassai, The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies

Although Argentina’s twentieth century was marked by repeated instances of political violence, the abuses of the authoritarian regime that prosecuted the country’s so-called “Dirty War” (1976-1983) assumed an unprecedented scale and ferocity. This exceptionality has stood at the heart of most analy...

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Autore principale: Katz, Paul
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire 2022
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:Although Argentina’s twentieth century was marked by repeated instances of political violence, the abuses of the authoritarian regime that prosecuted the country’s so-called “Dirty War” (1976-1983) assumed an unprecedented scale and ferocity. This exceptionality has stood at the heart of most analyses of the period published since the 1984 release of Nunca Más (Never Again), the final report of the country’s path-setting truth commission. Condemning the Dirty War dictatorship as “the greates...