“A Invasão do Comunismo”: o imaginário anticomunista católico nas páginas do jornal O Apóstolo (1866-1893)

Abstract

The last decades of the Brazilian Empire were immersed in a broad context of significant transformations throughout the Atlantic world. In this scenario, the formation of an anti-communist Catholic imaginary took place on the pages of the newspaper O Apóstolo, in Rio de Janeiro. Therefore, this dissertation aims to analyze the thought patterns, the national and international conjuncture, and this media phenomenon, immersing into the pages of the newspaper to explain the historical processes that precede and involve these manifestations in the ultramontane Catholic press at the end of the Empire.