Anita Leocádia Prestes
Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes (born 27 November 1936 in Berlin) is a Brazilian/German historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes.
She was born in Barnimstraße Women's Prison in Berlin and was handed over to the care of her paternal grandmother, Leocádia Prestes, at age 14 months. Her mother Olga was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to a former psychiatric hospital in Bernburg in 1942, where she was g*ed.
In 1964, Prestes achieved a degree in Chemistry from the then "University of Brazil", now known as the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Two years later she gained a Masters in Organic Chemistry.
Contents
- 1 Life in the USSR
- 2 Return to Brazil
- 3 Books
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Life in the USSR
At the beginning of the 1970s, Prestes moved into exile in the USSR. In August 1972, she was indicted in Brazil for political activities, with the Conselho Permanente de Justiça para o Exército (the Army supreme court) sentencing her in absentia to 4 years and 6 months in prison.
In December 1975 Prestes earned a Doctorate in Political Economics from the Ins*ute of Social Science in Moscow and four years later in September 1979, the Brazilian courts reduced Prestes's sentence by four years as part of a wider amnesty.
Return to Brazil
In 1989 Prestes received a Doctorate in History from the Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, with a thesis named A Coluna Prestes (The Prestes Column), which was the movement commanded by her father of almost 1500 men fighting against the presidency of Artur Bernardes. She is now a retired *ociate Professor of Brazilian History, but she continues teaching on the Master's and Doctorate's Compared History Program at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
Books
- Prestes, Anita Leocádia (1994). Os militares e a reação republicana: as origens do tenentismo . Vozes.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio (1995). Uma epopéia brasileira: a Coluna Prestes . Editora Moderna.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio (1999). Tenentismo pós-30: continuidade o ruptura? . Paz e Terra.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio (2001). Da inssureição armada, 1935 à união nacional, 1938-1945: a virada tática na política do PCB . Paz e Terra.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio (2006). Luiz Carlos Prestes: patriota, revolucionário, comunista (PDF). Editora Expressão Popular.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio (2008). Luiz Carlos Prestes e a Aliança Nacional Libertadora: os caminhos da luta antifascista no Brasil, 1934/35 . Editora Brasiliense.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio; Prestes, Luiz Carlos; Prestes, Lygia (2001). Anos tormentosos . Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio (2010). Os comunistas brasileiros (1945-1956/58): Luiz Carlos Prestes e a política do PCB . Editora Brasiliense.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio (1997). A Coluna Prestes . Paz e Terra.
- Prestes, Anita Leocádio (2017). Luiz Carlos Prestes: um comunista brasileiro . Boitempo Editorial.
References
External links
- Curriculum Vitae. CNPq Lattes System (In Portuguese).