Historical revisionism in Argentina: The politics of historical memory Alberto Spektorowski Tel Aviv University The decade of the 1930’s in Argentina was defined as the “Infamous decade” by right wing and left wing anti liberal nationalists. The definition portrayed Argentina’s political leadership as a corrupt one whose economic interests were connected to British private companies that developed joint ventures with the Argentinean political class. However, one of the most important intellectual developments explaining the politics of dependency and corruption, was the work of Argentine nationalist historians who through historical revisionism of Argentines political history explained the process by which liberal elites have sold the country to foreign interest. This type of historical revisionism set the arena for the development of a nationalist anti- imperialist doctrine in Argentina, whose two faces that of the Right and that of left became the socioeconomic and cultural basis of Peronist populism
