O candidato civil do PCB: a trajetória política do engenheiro Yêddo Fiúza (1930-1947)

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to analyze the political career of Yêddo Daudt Fiuza, Brazilian Communist Party candidate for president in 1945. The objective of this research is to understand, by analyzing the trajectory of Fiuza and taking into account the networks in which he inserted, how this engineer, figure linked to former President Getulio Vargas, approached the party and was the first presidential candidate released by the PCB, person who was part of the circle of friends of former President Getulio Vargas, became a member of the party and was the first presidential candidate released by the PCB. The first part of this research analyzes the Fiuza family relationships and friendships established by the maternal side of his family still in Rio Grande do Sul, where the engineer was born and did his studies at the School of Engineering of Porto Alegre. It also examines the work of Fiuza as a civil engineer and the implications of a discourse of recovery and the rise of a technical elite public administration in Brazil between 1920 and 1940. The second part of the work discusses the political career of Fiuza as intervenor in the city of Petropolis, where he ruled from 1930 to 1934. The third part of the study examines the period in which Fiuza has been linked to the old political oligarchies of Rio de Janeiro and was elected mayor of Petrópolis in the constitutional period of the first Vargas government. Finally, the last part of the dissertation analyzes the political campaign of 1945 and the candidacy of Yêddo Fiúza launched by the PCB.