La historia como liberación nacional: creando un pasado útil para la Bolivia posrevolucionaria
Abstract
Apoyándose en nuevas fuentes archivísticas, este ensayo examina tres distintos, aunque interrelacionados, casos del uso de la historia promovida por el MNR. En primer lugar, el autor analiza la producción historiográfica nacionalista considerándola una revisión de la historia nacional que rein-terpreta y reescribe el pasado asignando nuevos sentidos a determinados individuos, grupos y eventos. En segundo lugar, después de abril de 1952, los dirigentes del MNR procuraron enaltecer esta nueva historia, transformando el tiempo y el espacio cívicos con monumentos, murales y feriados nacionales. Por último, se analiza la profesionalización de la disciplina histórica. El liderazgo del partido sostenía que la historia había sido falsificada por la oligarquía. Al institucionalizar las normas epistémicas de prueba y objetividad, el MNR aseguró que la historia había de estar al servicio no solo de la nación, sino del partido.
Consulting new archival sources, this study observes three different, but interrelated, cases of the uses of History promoted by the MNR. In first place, the author analyses the nationalist historiographical production con-sidering it as a review of national history that reinterprets and rewrites the past assigning new senses to determined chosen individuals, groups and events. In second place, he states that after April 1951, the MNR leaders sought to praise the new history transforming civic time and space with monuments, murals and national festivities. Finally, the professionaliza-tion of the historical discipline is referred stating that the party affirmed that the oligarchy had falsified history and had institutionalized epistemic norms of proof and objectivity, assuring that history create had not only serve the nation, but also the party.
Consulting new archival sources, this study observes three different, but interrelated, cases of the uses of History promoted by the MNR. In first place, the author analyses the nationalist historiographical production con-sidering it as a review of national history that reinterprets and rewrites the past assigning new senses to determined chosen individuals, groups and events. In second place, he states that after April 1951, the MNR leaders sought to praise the new history transforming civic time and space with monuments, murals and national festivities. Finally, the professionaliza-tion of the historical discipline is referred stating that the party affirmed that the oligarchy had falsified history and had institutionalized epistemic norms of proof and objectivity, assuring that history create had not only serve the nation, but also the party.
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