Reis Filho, Daniel Aarão Luís Carlos Prestes: um revolucionário entre dois mundos

São Paulo: Companhia das letras, 2014. 576p.

luís Carlos Prestes was born in January 1898 and died in March 1990. 

During his long life he participated in significant moments in Brazilian history, 

and of the left in particular. In the 1920s, he was one of the leaders of the move-

ment which spread throughout Brazil in opposition to the administration of 

Artur Bernardes and to way the republication regime was organized. In the 

1930s he spent a long period in the Soviet Union, where he definitely adhered 

to communism and prepared the way to joining the Brazilian Communist 

Party (