La Revolución como mito, la Regeneración como promesa. Ideas-fuerza en los orígenes de la Unión Cívica Radical

Abstract

The event known as "Revolución del Parque", occurred in 1890, constitutes a fundamental fact, in the turning of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, for the argentine political scene, especially considering a political force: the Unión Cívica Radical. This paper focuses on a specific dimension concerning that relationship, the form in which that force members raised the notion of revolution in the core of their political imaginary, indissoluble from what they understood as a historical mission of political regeneration, of patriotic and moral character in nature. In that regard, the present work explores the context of the revolutionary crisis, the discourses and meanings that both notions acquired in the press, in juncture articles, contemporary literature and political memoirs.