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CHAVEZ MANCILLA, Ángel. Communists, Intellectuals, and Artists in the Fight for Peace, 1949-1953. The Beginnings of the Cultural Cold War in Mexico. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2024, n.68, pp.211-237.  Epub 22-Oct-2024. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2024.68.77927.

The aim of the study is to analyze the activities, organizations, and actors that took part in the peace movement developed in Mexico between 1949 and 1953 at the initiative of the World Peace Council (wpc), attached to the Cultural Cold War and promoted by the Soviet Union. Such a movement for peace in Mexico was supported by the Mexican Communist Party (PCM), as well as intellectuals, artists, and politicians favorable to the socialist ideal. The main sources used for this purpose were the magazines Peace and Soviet Culture. The conclusion reached is that the peace movement partially fulfilled its objectives, since it did not achieve a massive response or participation from the Mexican population, but it did manage to gather a significant number of recognized intellectuals and artists in the National Council of Supporters for Peace, an organization that with the PCM was the support of the wpc in Mexico.

Palabras llave : Cultural Cold War; communism in Mexico; intellectual history; international movement for peace.

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