Contenido: Este artículo revisa algunos supuestos historiográficos en torno al estudio de las formas de represión estatal en Argentina en el siglo XX y ofrece una serie de sugerencias metodológicas y conceptuales sobre el tema. En primer lugar se señala la necesidad de morigerar el uso recurrente de la escala nacional con el fin de percibir las particularidades regionales y globales de muchas prácticas represivas. En segundo lugar, se sugiere poner en cuestión la separación historiográfica entre quienes estudian la historia argentina antes y después de 1955 para detectar fenómenos de continuidad y de larga duración en el siglo XX. La tercera sección discute el peso excesivo que la historiografía suele otorgarle a la “cuestión peronista” lo cual ha condicionado la comprensión de la dinámica de violencia y represión política en la segunda parte del siglo. En el final de este texto se presentan algunas reflexiones para avanzar en caminos alternativos hacia una comprensión más ajustada de las formas de la violencia política estatal en Argentina.

Contenido:  This article analyzes the foundation and organization of the Black Front and the Frei-Deutschland Bewegung movements in Argentina in the 1930’s and 1940's, as well as their actions. Both organizations opposed the Third Reich and were led by exiled Otto Strasser. One of the main organizers of the German National-Socialist party, Strasser left his country in 1933 due to his violent confrontation with Hitler, whom he accused of being a traitor to the ideals of National-Socialism. The article focuses on the networks established by members of both organizations and other countries in America; their role in denouncing the "Nazi infiltration" of the Southern Cone of South America; and their relations with German-speaking anti-Nazis in Argentina.

Contenido: Hitler's ascent to the chancellorship of the Reich had a diverse impact on German speakers in Argentina. Among those who accepted the new order were the editors of the Der Russlanddeutsche , a weekly newspaper from the province of Entre Ríos catering to the “Germans from Russia”. The article analyzes the reception that periodical gave to National Socialism, from its consolidation as government to the eve of the Second World War. It focuses on the ways in which Hitler's regime and its politics influenced the self-perception of the weekly and its readers. It also studies how their experience impacted on their relations with others who identified themselves as German, as well as with other sectors in Argentine life, in a moment of great fluidity, when the Third Reich had still to take its dimension as a symbol for absolute evil.

Contenido:  This article examines the electoral processes developed in the countryside of Buenos Aires between 1815 and 1828, and is centered in discussing its so-called unanimous character. We consider that the issue of unanimity is central, since it assumes the absence of conflicts, the total control of the electoral process by local authorities and the subordination of the countryside to the city. This point of view implies that towns and rural inhabitants were both passive and simple receptors of the construction of a new legitimacy and, also, that the mechanisms to put this process into practice were only originated in the city and among the elites. So, our aim is to put to test this historiographical interpretation, using sources to see through them actual electoral practices, which show a different and more complex outlook.