A gênese regional da “Revolução de 30”

Abstract

This essay attempts to list the reasons that contributed to the fact that the “1930 Revolution” began in Rio Grande do Sul, that is, without denying its national causes, to investigate which economic and political motives contributed for the anti-situationism position of the state civil élite, which, even being peripheral within the national context, had risen to the position of leaders in the Liberal Alliance and eventually in the armed movement that ended the Old Republic. The essay is then divided in three sections. The first section discusses Vargas’ intellectual formation; the second one, the circumstances of political nature; and the third section, the economic transformations, whih, together with the former ones cited above, make up a set of hypotheses to explain the proposed issue.