Do outro lado da colina : a narrativa do exército sobre a ditadura civil-militar

Abstract

The dissertation entitled On the other side of the hill: the story of the Army on the civil-military dictatorship sought to examine a collection of statements produced and published by the Army Library, the Bibliex, in 2003 and 2004, about the coup detat and the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil. These are memories of soldiers and civilians that, in their majority, acted in the defense of the movement of March 31st, 1964, and in the support of the regime of the five general presidents. The scope of this paper is to examine how the narrative on the civil-military dictatorship from the testimony of these individuals operated, as well as the strategies used by the military in mounting this collection. It must be said that these narratives are embedded in long-standing disputes, fought in the field of memory among those who were fighting against the regime and those that supported it, even naming his starting point of Revolution, instead of Coup detat and Revolutionary Government instead of The Years of Lead.